. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Diabetologia. 2018 Nov 6;62(2):281–285. doi: 10.1007/s00125-018-4766-0

Table 1.

Age-adjusted and multivariable-adjusted HRs for moderate or worse hearing loss among women in NHS I/II with type 2 diabetes

Variable	NHS I		NHS II		Pooled results for NHS I and NHS II
Variable	No type 2 diabetes	Type 2 diabetes	No type 2 diabetes	Type 2 diabetes	No type 2 diabetes	Type 2 diabetes
Participants (n)	7703	550	2319	114	10,022	664
Person-years	1,293,748	54,952	1,041,912	28,108	2,335,660	83,060
Age-adjusted HR (95% CI)	1.00 (ref)	1.20 (1.10, 1.31)	1.00 (ref)	1.42 (1.17, 1.72)	1.00 (ref)	1.28 (1.09, 1.50)
Multivariable-adjusted HR (95% CI)^a	1.00 (ref)	1.15 (1.05, 1.26)	1.00 (ref)	1.24 (1.02, 1.52)	1.00 (ref)	1.16 (1.07, 1.27)

Exposure: type 2 diabetes; outcome: moderate or worse hearing loss

Covariates: AMED score, waist circumference, BMI, physical activity, hypertension, tinnitus, paracetamol use, ibuprofen use and race Ref, reference