Table 4.
Water from difference sources and association with plain water (PW) intake and glycated Hb (HbA1c) (Medians and interquartile ranges (IQR))
| Men (n 456) | Women (n 579) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverage types | Consumers (%)† | Median intake† | IQR | Correlation with PW | Correlation with HbA1c | Consumers (%)† | Median intake† | IQR | Correlation with PW | Correlation with HbA1c |
| PW (cups/d) | 76 | 1·4 | 0·5, 2·6 | – | −0·25** | 88 | 1·5 | 0·7, 2·8 | – | −0·05 |
| Alcoholic drinks (cups/d) | 60 | 1·7 | 0·5, 3·1 | −0·02 | −0·08 | 55 | 0·5 | 0·2, 1·0 | 0·04 | −0·14* |
| ASB (cups/d) | 32 | 0·7 | 0·3, 1·9 | −0·09 | −0·05 | 38 | 0·8 | 0·3, 1·7 | −0·04 | −0·06 |
| Fruit juice (cups/d) | 41 | 0·4 | 0·2, 0·7 | −0·06 | 0·06 | 41 | 0·3 | 0·1, 0·6 | −0·04 | 0·04 |
| Milk (cups/d) | 93 | 0·6 | 0·3, 1·0 | −0·06 | 0·14** | 95 | 0·5 | 0·3, 0·8 | −0·09* | 0·11* |
| SSB (cups/d) | 52 | 0·9 | 0·4, 1·6 | 0·03 | 0·01 | 50 | 0·5 | 0·3, 1·0 | 0·00 | 0·21** |
| Tea/coffee (cups/d) | 88 | 3·0 | 1·7, 4·1 | −0·15** | 0·21** | 93 | 3·0 | 1·9, 4·2 | −0·12** | 0·26** |
| Miscellaneous beverages (cups/d) | 16 | 0·3 | 0·2, 0·8 | −0·12 | −0·07 | 21 | 0·5 | 0·2, 0·8 | 0·02 | 0·13 |
| Total beverages (cups/d)‡ | 100 | 5·8 | 4·1, 7·7 | −0·17** | 0·06 | 100 | 4·9 | 3·5, 6·4 | −0·12** | 0·17** |
| Water from food (g/d) | 100 | 579 | 458, 739 | 0·20*** | 0·05§ | 100 | 528 | 410, 654 | 0·22*** | 0·12**§ |
| Total water (g/d)‡ | 100 | 2015 | 1571, 2546 | −0·09 | 0·02§ | 100 | 1729 | 1329, 2147 | −0·04 | 0·18**§ |
ASB, artificially sweetened beverages; SSB, sugar-sweetened beverages.
1 cup=240 ml.
* P<0·05, ** P<0·01, *** P<0·001.
†
Percentage of the sample who reported consuming each beverage type; median intakes are of consumers only.
‡
Total minus PW.
§
Pearson’s correlation used; all other correlations used Spearman’s ρ.