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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2019 May;71(5):671–677. doi: 10.1002/acr.23703

Table 4.

Alcohol drinking in relation to incidence of SLE among women in the in the Black Women’s Health Study

Drinking # Cases Person-years Age-adjusted HR1 MV HR2 95% CI
Never drank 67 394,902 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
Past drinker 29 251,324 0.86 0.78 (0.50–1.25)
Current drinker 31 281,855 0.78 0.71 (0.45–1.12)
 1–3 drinks/week 24 186,826 0.94 0.87 (0.53–1.41)
 ≥ 4 drinks/week 7 95,029 0.49 0.43 (0.19–0.96)

MV=multivariable, HR=hazard ratio; CI= confidence interval

1

Age-adjusted HR was also adjusted for questionnaire cycle.

2

MV adjusted in addition for cigarette smoking, BMI, ever use of oral contraceptives, menopausal status, ever use of menopausal female hormones, quintile of energy intake, years of education and quintile of neighborhood socioeconomic status score.