Table 4.
Potential risk factors for cancer of the esophagus
| Risk factor | Ca-esophagus N=55 |
No Ca-esophagus N=232 |
Crude OR (95% CI) |
pvalue |
| Age(OR/10years)† | Median=60 | Median=45 | 1.58(1.31, 1.89) | <0.001 |
| Gender (Male) | 38(69%) | 113(49%) | 2.35(1.26, 4.41) | 0.001 |
| Smoking (Yes) | 28(51%) | 43(19%) | 4.80(2.44, 8.51) | <0.001 |
| Alcohol use | ||||
| Any | 41(75%) | 107(46%) | 3.42(1.77, 6.61) | <0.001 |
| Heavy/moderate drinker‡ |
22(40%) | 53(23%) | 2.25(1.21, 4.19) | 0.010 |
| Family history of cancer |
1(2%) | 7(3%) | 0.60(0.07, 4.94) | 0.631 |
| Relative with cancer | 1(2%) | 9(4%) | 0.46(0.06, 3.70) | 0.465 |
| From Central Region |
31(56%) | 136(59%) | 0.91(0.50, 1.65) | 0.760 |
†
crude odds-ratio obtained from using age (expressed in decades) as linear effect in the logistic regression model
‡
men > 2 standard drinks/day, women: >1 standard drinks/day where 1 standard drink is more than 500 mls of beer or 100 mls of local alcohol