Table 4.

Second set of analyses utilizing measures of drinking strictly prior to the decade of onset risk assessment in Cox models predicting diabetes onset among respondents aged 20–69¹

	Total		Men		Women
(Ref: life abstainers)	HR	CI	HR	CI	HR	CI
No Alcohol this period	0.95	(0.74, 1.21)	0.80	(0.51, 1.25)	1.04	(0.77, 1.41)
No 5+, Freq < monthly	0.95	(0.73, 1.23)	1.21	(0.75, 1.94)	0.86	(0.62, 1.19)
5+ yearly, Freq < monthly	0.90	(0.61, 1.33)	0.85	(0.48, 1.49)	0.88	(0.48, 1.60)
5+ <monthly, Freq ≥ monthly	0.80	(0.59, 1.09)	0.75	(0.44, 1.27)	0.88	(0.60, 1.29)
5+ <monthly, Freq ≥ weekly	0.64	(0.44, 0.91)*	0.70	(0.41, 1.18)	0.59	(0.35, 1.01)
5+ ≥ 1x/month	0.64	(0.45, 0.90)*	0.63	(0.38, 1.04)	0.67	(0.41, 1.12)
5+ ≥ 1x/week	0.87	(0.64, 1.16)	0.91	(0.59, 1.41)	0.87	(0.55, 1.38)

	White		Black		Hispanics
(Ref: life abstainers)	HR	CI	HR	CI	HR	CI
No Alcohol this period	0.82	(0.52, 1.29)	0.71	(0.45, 1.13)	1.02	(0.66, 1.59)
No 5+, Freq < monthly	0.83	(0.52, 1.31)	0.79	(0.49, 1.28)	1.15	(0.72, 1.85)
5+ yearly, Freq < monthly	0.62	(0.33, 1.17)	0.83	(0.32, 2.16)	1.18	(0.59, 2.33)
5+ <monthly, Freq ≥ monthly	0.68	(0.41, 1.13)	0.76	(0.44, 1.31)	0.82	(0.45, 1.49)
5+ <monthly, Freq ≥ weekly	0.42	(0.22, 0.79)**	0.77	(0.43, 1.38)	0.83	(0.38, 1.84)
5+ ≥ 1x/month	0.45	(0.25, 0.80)**	0.82	(0.43, 1.57)	0.67	(0.35, 1.28)
5+ ≥ 1x/week	0.64	(0.39, 1.07)	0.77	(0.45, 1.34)	1.04	(0.60, 1.79)

¹Controlling for age, gender, education, income, employment status, marital status, smoking, BMI, parental alcohol problem, childhood physical abuse and childhood sexual abuse

HR=hazard ratio; CI=confidence interval;

^*p<0.05,

^**p<0.01