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. 2024 Mar 30;39(4):393–407. doi: 10.1007/s10654-024-01110-y

Table 3.

Bladder cancer risk (Odd Ratio [OR] and 95% confidence intervals) by quartiles of methylation methylation level at cg05575921 (AHHR) and the first principal component (PC1) summarising the methylation levels at the 200 smoking-related CpG site

Crude Modela Adjusted on pack-years Adjusted on duration (years) Adjusted on intensity (packs/day)
OR p-value OR p-value OR p-value OR p-value
cg05575921 (AHRR) Q2 vs Q1 1.41 (1.08, 1.85) 1.3e − 02 1.36 (1.04, 1.79) 2.6e − 02 1.36 (1.04, 1.79) 2.6e − 02 1.39 (1.06, 1.82) 1.8e − 02
Q3 vs Q1 1.47 (1.12, 1.93) 5.4e − 03 1.29 (1.03, 1.7) 7.8e − 02 1.20 (1.12, 1.6) 2.3e − 01 1.39 (1.06, 1.84) 1.8e − 02
Q4 vs Q1 2.58 (1.91, 3.48) 5.7e − 10 1.87 (1.34, 2.62) 2.8e − 04 1.47 (1, 2.19) 5.2e − 02 2.09 (1.52, 2.89) 7.5e − 06
PC1b Q2 vs Q1 1.25 (1.04, 1.63) 1.0e − 01 1.18 (1.11, 1.54) 2.3e − 01 1.18 (1.11, 1.54) 2.2e − 01 1.21 (1.08, 1.57) 1.7e − 01
Q3 vs Q1 1.89 (1.43, 2.5) 9.5e − 06 1.64 (1.23, 2.19) 8.7e − 04 1.58 (1.18, 2.12) 2.1e − 03 1.75 (1.31, 2.33) 1.3e − 04
Q4 vs Q1 2.48 (1.85, 3.34) 1.6e − 09 1.90 (1.38, 2.63) 9.2e − 05 1.63 (1.15, 2.32) 6.3e − 03 2.07 (1.52, 2.84) 4.5e − 06

Results are also presented for the model additionally adjusted for smoking metrics

Number of observations per quartile:

cg055792: Q1 (n = 386); Q2: (n = 386); Q3 (n = 386); Q4: (n = 387)

PC1: Q1 (n = 386); Q2: (n = 386); Q3 (n = 386); Q4: (n = 387)

aAll models were adjusted for age, sex and centre

bPC1 explains 19.3% of the total variance