Table 3.
Association between serum albumin levels and cancer mortality.
| Groups | Albumin, g/dL |
Cancer mortality | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude HR (95% CI) |
P
for trend |
Adjusted HR (95% CI) |
P
for trend |
||
| All cancers | ≤4.20 | 1.46 (1.32, 1.62) | < 0.001 | 1.23 (1.10, 1.37) | < 0.001 |
| > 4.20 | Reference | Reference | |||
| Well survived cancers | ≤4.20 | 1.37 (1.19, 1.60) | < 0.001 | 1.12 (1.05, 1.30) | < 0.001 |
| > 4.20 | Reference | Reference | |||
| Poorly survived cancers | ≤4.20 | 1.54 (1.33, 1.78) | < 0.001 | 1.30 (1.12, 1.50) | < 0.001 |
| > 4.20 | Reference | Reference | |||
Crude model: adjusted for none. Adjusted model: adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, BMI, smoking, drinking, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, anemia, CVD. HR, Hazard ratio and CI, confidence interval.