Table 2.
Adjusted† associations of alcohol use with death from ischemic heart disease (ICD-9 410–414) in different analytic strategies for Chinese men and women aged 60 years and over from Hong Kong in 1998
| Alcohol use, 10 years previously | |||||||||||
| Never | Occasional | Moderate | High | Ex-drinker | |||||||
| Analytic strategy | Control group | Stratification | <1/week | At least weekly, and ≤ 13.7 g (women) or ≤ 27.4 g (men) of ethanol/occasion | At least weekly, and >13.7 g (women) or >27.4 g (men) of ethanol/occasion | ||||||
| OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | ||||
| Living control | All living controls | Men | 1 | 0.58 | 0.47 to 0.72 | 0.51 | 0.41 to 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.47 to 0.84 | 1.30 | 1.03 to 1.64 |
| #cases/controls | 667/1552 | 132/521 | 144/688 | 77/256 | 154/257 | ||||||
| Women | 1 | 1.04 | 0.77 to 1.40 | 0.58 | 0.34 to 1.00 | 0.43 | 0.20 to 0.89 | 1.82 | 1.16 to 2.84 | ||
| #cases/controls | 968/6222 | 67/454 | 18/160 | 9/113 | 34/97 | ||||||
| Ever-smoker | 1 | 0.64 | 0.51 to 0.81 | 0.50 | 0.39 to 0.63 | 0.63 | 0.47 to 0.83 | 1.35 | 1.06 to 1.71 | ||
| #cases/controls | 502/1398 | 124/509 | 114/571 | 75/276 | 149/251 | ||||||
| Never-smoker | 1 | 0.84 | 0.64 to 1.11 | 0.73 | 0.52 to 1.04 | 0.58 | 0.30 to 1.14 | 1.47 | 0.97 to 2.23 | ||
| #cases controls | 1133/6376 | 75/466 | 48/277 | 11/92 | 39/103 | ||||||
| Dead control* | All non-vascular, non-respiratory deaths and non-alcohol related deaths* | Men | 1 | 0.75 | 0.61 to 0.93 | 0.66 | 0.54 to 0.81 | 0.56 | 0.43 to 0.73 | 0.95 | 0.77 to 1.17 |
| #cases/controls | 667/2249 | 132/623 | 144/841 | 77/581 | 154/585 | ||||||
| Women | 1 | 1.14 | 0.85 to 1.52 | 0.93 | 0.55 to 1.57 | 0.48 | 0.24 to 0.97 | 1.01 | 0.68 to 1.50 | ||
| #cases/controls | 968/3650 | 67/236 | 18/82 | 9/74 | 34/122 | ||||||
| Ever-smoker | 1 | 0.75 | 0.60 to 0.93 | 0.58 | 0.46 to 0.73 | 0.53 | 0.41 to 0.69 | 0.89 | 0.72 to 1.10 | ||
| #cases/controls | 502/1890 | 124/604 | 114/761 | 75/583 | 149/600 | ||||||
| Never-smoker | 1 | 1.05 | 0.80 to 1.38 | 1.07 | 0.76 to 1.50 | 0.51 | 0.27 to 0.98 | 1.17 | 0.80 to 1.71 | ||
| #cases/controls | 1133/4009 | 75/255 | 48/162 | 11/72 | 39/107 | ||||||
†All models adjusted for age, sex, education, physical activity, physical activity in longest held occupation and smoking, except in cases where stratified results are presented for a co-variable, or co-variables.
* excludes deaths coded as ICD-9 11, 18, 140, 141, 143–146, 148, 149, 150, 155, 161, 174, 390–519, 571