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. 2009 May 28;15(20):2531–2536. doi: 10.3748/wjg.15.2531

Table 2.

Differences by gender in association of occupation and willingness to attend a colorectal screening program

OR1 (95% CI)1
OR2 (95% CI)1
OR3 (95% CI)1
Together2 Male Female Together2 Male Female Together2 Male Female
Occupation
Worker 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Official/administrator 3.42 (0.64-18.36) 4.13 (0.55-31.26) - 1.21 (0.30-4.92) 3.40 (0.49-23.65) 0.50 (0.05-4.67) 2.83 (0.73-10.90) 1.22 (0.25-5.87) -
Technician/professional 2.99 (0.96-9.32) 15.5 (2.34-102.85) 0.81 (0.15-4.51) 4.24 (1.27-14.11) 6.80 (1.44-32.20) 5.00 (0.42-59.66) 0.71 (0.23-2.15) 2.28 (0.41-12.61) 0.16 (0.02-1.42)
Businessman 2.49 (0.88-7.07) 12.4 (2.32-66.35) 0.61 (0.11-3.22) 2.64 (0.93-7.49) 8.16 (1.80-37.06) 0.83 (0.15-4.64) 0.94 (0.38-2.32) 1.52 (0.34-6.89) 0.73 (0.23-2.32)
Other 2.18 (1.17-4.06) 5.8 (1.99-16.94) 1.06 (0.47-2.38) 1.51 (0.82-2.77) 3.94 (1.39-11.21) 0.74 (0.33-1.63) 1.44 (0.93-2.25) 1.47 (0.76-2.85) 1.44 (0.79-2.62)
Gender
Male 1.00 1.00 1.00
Female 0.62 (0.37-1.04) 0.71 (0.43-1.17) 0.87 (0.58-1.32)
P for heterogeneity 0.009 0.01 0.80
1

OR1: Odds ratio for case versus control 1; OR2: Odds ratio for case versus control 2; OR3: Odds ratio for comparison between two control groups; 95% CI means 95% confidence interval.

2

OR’s in all means only occupation and gender factors were single in the models, or called a single OR.