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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sleep Med. 2017 Sep 6;38:135–141. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2017.07.024

Table 4.

Modification effect of tea intake on association of sleep duration and diabetes incidence by age and risk score.*

Sleep duration <7 hours 7–7.9 hours ≥8 hours plinear pinteraction
n=7351 n=6213 n=9185



cases HR CI (95%) cases HR cases HR CI (95%)
Age <60 (years)

Currently drink tea

  Yes 241 0.97 (0.80,1.17) 190 1.00 297 1.08 (0.89, 1.30) 0.22 0.37

  No 91 1.01 (0.74,1.39) 71 1.00 147 1.26 (0.94, 1.69) 0.10

Age ≥ 60 (years)

Currently drink tea

  Yes 98 1.34 (0.97,1.85) 60 1.00 109 1.18 (0.86, 1.63) 0.41 <0.01

  No 76 0.78 (0.55,1.10) 61 1.00 80 1.24 (0.88, 1.74) <0.01

Low risk (score: 02)

Currently drink tea

  Yes 82 1.08 (0.75, 1.56) 50 1.00 78 1.20 (0.84, 1.73) 0.54 0.43

  No 50 1.06 (0.65, 1.72) 27 1.00 54 1.49 (0.92, 2.41) 0.10

Moderate risk (score: 34)

Currently drink tea

  Yes 132 1.07 (0.82, 1.39) 102 1.00 182 1.14 (0.89, 1.46) 0.54 0.34

  No 67 0.95 (0.66, 1.37) 62 1.00 95 1.22 (0.87, 1.72) 0.12

High (score: >4) risk

Currently drink tea

  Yes 125 1.00 (0.77, 1.31) 98 1.00 146 1.08 (0.84,1.41) 0.51 0.03

  No 50 0.68 (0.45, 1.04) 43 1.00 78 1.17 (0.80, 1.72) <0.01
*

Adjusted for age, BMI, energy intake, smoking (pack-years), drinking (drinks per day), current tea drinking, exercise (met-hours/year), hypertension, family history of diabetes, shiftwork, snoring, and comorbidity (stratifying variable was not adjusted in the model). Excludes those cases that were diagnosed within 2 years of recruitment.