A longitudinal assessment of alcohol intake and incident depression: the SUN project

BMC Public Health

Table 3 HR and 95% CI for incident depression according to categories of daily alcohol intake adapted to the spline results

*Alcohol intake categories (g/day)*	0	<5	5-15	>15
	OVERALL SAMPLE
Cases/Person-years	114/16,921	204/33,011	95/23,242	46/9,753
Age and sex adjusted	1 (Ref.)	0.96 (0.76-1.21)	0.66 (0.49-0.87)	0.77 (0.53-1.10)
Multiple-adjusted model ^a	1 (Ref.)	0.94 (0.75-1.19)	0.65 (0.49-0.86)	0.73 (0.50-1.06)
	MALES
Cases/Person-years	22/3,814	53/10,911	49/12,776	32/7,610
Age adjusted	1 (Ref.)	0.82 (0.49-1.34)	0.64 (0.39-1.07)	0.68 (0.39-1.17)
Multiple-adjusted model ^b	1 (Ref.)	0.82 (0.50-1.36)	0.64 (0.39-1.07)	0.68 (0.39-1.19)
	FEMALES
Cases/Person-years	88/12,629	136/19,523	59/12,578	12/1,706
Age adjusted	1 (Ref.)	1.01 (0.78-1.31)	0.62 (0.44-0.89)	0.86 (0.49-1.51)
Multiple-adjusted model ^b	1 (Ref.)	0.97 (0.75-1.27)	0.62 (0.43-0.89)	0.84 (0.47-1.48)

a. Adjusted for age, sex, smoking, physical activity (MET-h/week), total energy intake (Kcal/day), baseline body mass index (kg/m²), adherence to the MDP, marital status, and employment status.
b. Excluding sex from the previous multiple-adjusted model.
The SUN Project 1999–2010.

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