Green tea consumption and incidence of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetic patients with overweight/obesity: a community-based cohort study

Table 2 Association between green tea consumption and the risk of CVD, stroke, and CHD

	Total CVD		Stroke		CHD
	HR (95% CI)	Adjusted P_values	HR (95% CI)	Adjusted P_values	HR (95% CI)	Adjusted P_values
Green tea consumption
Non- consumption	1		1		1
Green tea consumers	0.76 (0.63–0.91)	0.003	0.77 (0.62–0.96)	0.020	0.68 (0.52–0.90)	0.006
Daily tea leaves consumption
Non- consumption	1		1		1
< 2.5 g/day	0.79 (0.63–0.98)	0.034	0.81 (0.62–1.06)	0.127	0.72 (0.51–1.01)	0.06
2.5–5 g/day	0.76 (0.60–0.96)	0.024	0.78 (0.58–1.04)	0.094	0.70 (0.49–1.01)	0.054
> 5 g/day	0.71 (0.55–0.92)	0.008	0.70 (0.51–0.95)	0.022	0.60 (0.40–0.89)	0.011
P trend		0.019		0.036		0.020
Duration of consumption
Non- consumption	1		1		1
< 25 years	0.77 (0.58–1.01)	0.056	0.77 (0.55–1.07)	0.118	0.74 (0.49–1.12)	0.152
25–40 years	0.82 (0.65–1.03)	0.089	0.88 (0.67–1.16)	0.359	0.71 (0.49–1.01)	0.054
> 40 years	0.69 (0.54–0.88)	0.002	0.67 (0.50–0.90)	0.008	0.61 (0.42–0.88)	0.009
P trend		0.003		0.015		0.005

Models were adjusted for covariates in age, sex, smoking status, alcohol consumption status, BMI, annual income, education, employment, marital status, physical exercise, SBP, DBP, dyslipidemia, hypertension,lipid-lowering drugs, antihypertensive drugs, oral hypoglycaemic agents, family history of CVD, family history of T2DM, times of weekly meat/fruit/vegetable consumption, HbA1c, FPG, diabetes duration, and diabetes complications.

ISSN: 2049-3258