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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2018 May;29(3):369–378. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000812

Table 4.

Female and male sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and fecundability.

Beverage (servings/week) No. of pregnancies No. of cycles Unadjusted FR (95% CI) Adjusteda FR (95% CI)
Sugar-sweetened beverages
 Female ≤1/week, male ≤1/week 255 1392 1.0 (Ref) 1.0 (Ref)
 Female ≤1/week, male 2–6/week 138 773 0.97 (0.81, 1.2) 0.95 (0.78, 1.2)
 Female ≤1/week, male ≥7/week 61 462 0.78 (0.60, 1.0) 0.77 (0.59, 1.0)
 Female 2–6/week, male ≤1/week 51 302 0.95 (0.73, 1.3) 1.0 (0.75, 1.3)
 Female 2–6/week, male 2–6/week 75 570 0.77 (0.61, 0.97) 0.76 (0.59, 0.98)
 Female 2–6/week, male ≥7/week 49 355 0.85 (0.64, 1.1) 0.91 (0.67, 1.2)
 Female ≥7/week, male ≤1/week 10 65 0.78 (0.44, 1.4) 0.71 (0.40, 1.3)
 Female ≥7/week, male 2–6/week 9 120 0.46 (0.23, 0.92) 0.50 (0.24, 1.0)
 Female ≥7/week, male ≥7/week 24 258 0.57 (0.38, 0.85) 0.61 (0.39, 0.94)
Sugar-sweetened sodas
 Female ≤1/week, male ≤1/week 457 2494 1.0 (Ref) 1.0 (Ref)
 Female ≤1/week, male 2–6/week 100 704 0.83 (0.68, 1.0) 0.81 (0.66, 1.0)
 Female ≤1/week, male ≥7/week 30 291 0.61 (0.42, 0.87) 0.57 (0.39, 0.83)
 Female 2–6/week, male ≤1/week 31 232 0.78 (0.56, 1.1) 0.79 (0.55, 1.1)
 Female 2–6/week, male 2–6/week 21 247 0.55 (0.38, 0.83) 0.57 (0.37, 0.88)
 Female 2–6/week, male ≥7/week 21 178 0.76 (0.50, 1.2) 0.88 (0.56, 1.4)
 Female ≥7/week, male ≤1/week 2 41 0.29 (0.07, 1.1) 0.30 (0.08, 1.2)
 Female ≥7/week, male 2–6/week 4 37 0.45 (0.12, 1.7) 0.41 (0.10, 1.7)
 Female ≥7/week, male ≥7/week 6 73 0.48 (0.21, 1.1) 0.49 (0.20, 1.2)
a

Adjusted for male and female age, BMI, education, race/ethnicity, smoking, physical activity, caffeine intake, alcohol intake, sleep duration, PSS-10 score, annual household income, intercourse frequency, and doing something to improve chances of conception.

BMI=body mass index

PSS=Perceived Stress Score