Associations of tea drinking with glucose levels using multivariate liner regression model
| Tea drinking | Green tea drinking | |||
| β | P value | β | P value | |
| FPG | 0.292 | <0.001 | 0.318 | <0.001 |
| PG30min | 0.370 | <0.001 | 0.407 | 0.002 |
| PG1h | 0.484 | 0.003 | 0.491 | 0.013 |
| PG2h | 0.484 | 0.016 | 0.534 | 0.016 |
| PG3h | 0.197 | 0.259 | 0.208 | 0.259 |
| FIN | −0.013 | 0.968 | −0.113 | 0.780 |
| IN30min | −3.050 | 0.254 | −3.422 | 0.267 |
| IN1h | −2.684 | 0.369 | −3.017 | 0.408 |
| IN2h | −3.787 | 0.258 | −4.489 | 0.273 |
| IN3h | −2.894 | 0.162 | −4.053 | 0.117 |
Model adjusted for categorical age, gender, categorical body mass index (BMI), alcohol consumption, coffee drinking, smoking status, education, family history of diabetes, history of dyslipidemia and physical activity at work.
FIN, fasting serum insulin; FPG, fasting plasma glucose; IN1h, 1-hour postprandial serum insulin; IN2h, 2-hour postprandial serum insulin; IN3h, 3-hour postprandial serum insulin; IN30min, 30 min postprandial serum insulin; PG1h, 1-hour postprandial plasma glucose; PG2h, 2 -hour postprandial plasma glucose; PG3h, 3 -hour postprandial plasma glucose; PG30min, 30 min postprandial plasma glucose.