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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009 Mar 31;18(4):1232–1238. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0995

Table 2.

Association between the history of atopy and case-control status

History of Atopy OR (95% CI)
Model I Model II Model III

63 Cases & 80 Matched Sibling Controls matched analysis 122 Cases & 191 Matched Friend Controls matched analysis (a) 388 Cases & 177 Clinic-based Controls unmatched analysis (b) 239 Cases & 177 Clinic-based Controls unmatched analysis

Number of atopic conditions
Atopy-related ordinal score (0,1,2,3) 0.55 (0.30, 1.01)* 0.69 (0.48, 1.0)* 0.57 (0.44, 0.75)* 0.60 (0.44, 0.81)*

Categories: None
ref. ref. ref. ref.
 1 condition
0.65 (0.28, 1.49) 0.62 (0.37, 1.04) 0.64 (0.42, 0.96) 0.70 (0.45, 1.1)
 ≥2 conditions 0.22 (0.04, 1.16) 0.57 (0.24, 1.33) 0.28 (0.15, 0.52) 0.27 (0.13, 0.56)

Specific Atopy-related Conditions
 Allergies 0.53 (0.15, 1.84) 0.54 (0.28, 1.07) 0.34 (0.23, 0.50) 0.43 (0.28, 0.66)
 Asthma 0.43 (0.19, 1.00) 0.84 (0.47, 1.50) 0.96 (0.58, 1.59) 0.71 (0.39, 1.27)
 Eczema 0.74 (0.13, 4.35) 0.42 (0.15, 1.18) 0.70 (0.30, 1.64) 0.79 (0.31, 2.01)
*

OR per increase in one atopic condition