Light to Moderate Alcohol Consumption Is Protective for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Normal Weight and Overweight Individuals but Not the Obese

Table 3

Multivariate relative risks (95% confidence interval) for new cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus in employed men and women, 1988–1990.

	Overall	Normal	Overweight	Obese
Alcohol consumption
None^1	1.0 (Referent)	1.0	1.0	1.0
<5 g/day	0.53 (0.34, 0.82)	0.05 (0.01, 0.39)	0.20 (0.07, 0.54)	1.00 (0.58, 1.74)
<20 g/day	0.69 (0.43, 1.08)	0.32 (0.10, 1.04)	0.43 (0.18, 1.03)	1.08 (0.59, 1.98)
≥20 g/day	0.80 (0.46, 1.37)	0.64 (0.17, 2.42)	0.74 (0.30, 1.84)	0.76 (0.33, 3.72)
None^2	1.0 (Referent)	1.0	1.0	1.0
<5 g/day	0.60 (0.37, 0.96)	0.04 (0.01, 0.38)	0.30 (0.10, 0.86)	0.99 (0.55, 1.79)
<20 g/day	0.72 (0.43, 1.21)	0.23 (0.06, 0.83)	0.60 (0.23, 1.60)	0.93 (0.48, 1.82)
≥20 g/day	0.63 (0.33, 1.19)	0.31 (0.06, 1.62)	1.15 (0.41, 3.27)	0.36 (0.13, 1.01)

1Adjusted for age, sex, and ethnicity.
²Adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, smoking habit, body mass index, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, hypertension, physical activity, and socioeconomic status.