Table I. Significant trends in the mortaility of pancreatic cancer, 1992–2002.

		Males			Females
	Country	coefficient	95% CI	p-value	coefficient	95% CI	p-value
Eastern Europe	Bulgaria			NS	0.021	(0.006, 0.036)	0.01
	Estonia			NS			NS
	Latvia			NS			NS
	Lithuania			NS			NS
	Moldova			NS			NS
	Poland	−0.006	(−0.012, −0.001)	0.02			NS
	Romania	0.02	(0.014, 0.026)	<0.001	0.023	(0.016, 0.030)	<0.001
Southern Europe	Albania	0.077	(0.033, 0.121)	0.003	0.104	(0.044, 0.163)	0.003
	Croatia	0.033	(0.016, 0.050)	0.002	0.027	(0.004, 0.051)	0.03
	Greece	0.009	(−0.002, 0.020)	0.09	0.014	(0.004, 0.023)	0.01
	Italy			NS	0.006	(−0.0003, 0.012)	0.06
	Macedonia			NS			NS
	Malta			NS	0.06	(0.007, 0.114)	0.03
	Portugal			NS			NS
	Slovenia			NS			NS
	Spain	0.011	(0.006, 0.016)	0.001	0.012	(0.003, 0.021)	0.02
Western Europe	Belgium			NS			NS
	France			NS	0.014	(0.008, 0.020)	<0.001
	Germany			NS	0.004	(0.0003, 0.008)	0.04
	Ireland	−0.015	(−0.30, −0.001)	0.04			NS
	Luxembourg			NS			NS
	Netherlands			NS			NS
	Switzerland	−0.013	(−0.025, −0.002)	0.03			NS
	UK	−0.008	(−0.013, −0.002)	0.01			NS
Central Europe	Austria	−0.012	(−0.020, −0.004)	0.01			NS
	Czechoslovakia			NS			NS
	Hungary			NS			NS
	Slovakia			NS			NS
Northern Asia	Georgia			NS			NS
	Russia	0.043	(−0.011, 0.096)	0.08	0.053	(−0.019, 0.125)	0.09
	Kyrgyzstan			NS			NS
North East Asia	Japan			NS	0.004	(0.001, 0.007)	0.02
	Korea	0.028	(0.017, 0.039)	<0.001	0.26	(0.014, 0.039)	0.001
South East Asia	China			NS			NS
	Philippines			NS			NS
	Singapore			NS			NS
	Thailand			NS			NS
North America	Canada	−0.013	(−0.018, −0.007)	0.001	−0.008	(−0.012, −0.003)	0.006
	USA	−0.003	(−0.006, 0.0002)	0.07			NS
South America	Colombia			NP			NP
	Costa Rica			NP			NP
	Ecuador			NP			NP
	Mexico			NP			NP
	Uruguay			NP			NP
	Venezuela			NP			NP

NS = not significant; NP = not performed; CI = confidence interval.