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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Diabet Med. 2023 Oct 15;41(4):e15234. doi: 10.1111/dme.15234

Table 4.

Multivariable Adjusted Hazard Ratios (and 95% Confidence Intervals) for Incident Pancreatic Cancer among those with and without Diabetes

Diabetes HR (95% CI) Without diabetes HR (95% CI)
Diabetes duration -----------------------
 No diabetes --------------------------- ------------------------
 0 -< 5 years Ref -------------------------
 5 - <10 years 1.75 (1.01–3.03) -------------------------
 ≥ 10 years 0.93 (0.52–1.66) -------------------------
Sex, women 0.88 (0.54–1.46) 0.78 (0.56–1.06)
Race
 White Ref Ref
 African American 1.32 (0.77–2.26) 1.37 (0.97–1.93)
 Other races 0.40 (0.05–3.00) 1.30 (0.59–2.87)
Antihyperglycemic medications
 None Ref ----------------------
 Insulin alone 1.13 (0.57–2.25) ----------------------
 Metformin alone 0.68 (0.20–2.32) ----------------------
 Insulin or metformin plus one other anti-hyperglycemic medication 0.53 (0.22–1.29) -----------------------
 Antihyperglycemic medication other than insulin or metformin 0.81 (0.46–1.43) -------------------------
Family history of pancreatic cancer 2.45 (0.77–7.86) 0.38 (0.05–2.69)
BMI category
 Normal weight Ref Ref
 Underweight 6.39 (1.33–30.64) 2.66 (1.27–5.59)
 Overweight 1.14 (0.50–2.57) 0.89 (0.62–1.28)
 Obese class 1 1.07 (0.47–2.44) 0.50 (0.30–0.83)
 Obese class 2+ 1.10 (0.49–2.49) 0.95 (0.61–1.50)
History of high cholesterol
 None Ref Ref
 Treated 0.68 (0.41–1.13) 0.81 (0.52–1.26)
 Not treated 0.77 (0.39–1.50) 0.96 (0.63–1.47)
Smoking pack years* 1.20 (1.04–1.39) 1.13 (1.02–1.25)
Alcohol consumption* 0.80 (0.46–1.37) 0.98 (0.80–1.20)
Physical activity* 0.99 (0.78–1.26) 0.88 (0.76–1.02)
Less than high school graduate 0.83 (0.50–1.36) 1.21 (0.87–1.67)
Annual household income <$15,000 0.80 (0.50–1.30) 1.04 (0.76–1.45)
Insurance coverage 0.61 (0.37–1.01) 1.17 (0.84–1.62)
*

Natural logarithmically transformed after the addition of 1 to each value.

The table includes all variables included in the multivariable adjusted analyses. Age was used as the time scale in these Cox regression analyses.