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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Menopause. 2009 Sep–Oct;16(5):1044–1048. doi: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3181a1ba04

Table 2. Univariate and adjusted Cox proportional hazards for incident lung cancer in women living in Rancho Bernardo, California, from 1972 to 2002 (N = 2,861).

Univariate hazards Adjusted hazardsa


Variable Hazard ratio 95% CI Hazard ratio 95% CI
Hormone status (yes vs no) 1.23 0.80-1.87 1.13 0.73-1.73
Age 1.05 1.03-1.08 1.08 1.06-1.11
BMI 0.96 0.90-1.03 0.96 0.90-1.03
Education category
 College graduate or moreb 1.0 1.0
 Some college 1.58 0.90-2.77 1.51 0.86-2.67
 High school graduate or less 1.17 0.66-2.10 1.11 0 62-1.99
Marital status (married vs other) 0.47 0.29-0.76 0.66 0.40-1.10
Smoking status
 Never smokedb 1.0 1.0
 Former smoker 1.98 1.01-3.88 2.17 1.10-4.26
 1-10 cigarettes/d 2.77 1.19-6.42 3.67 1.57-8.58
 11-20 cigarettes/d 5.37 2.81-10.27 7.69 3.94-15.00
 21 or more cigarettes/d 9.69 5.23-17.95 16.22 8.47-31.06
  Pc <0.0001 <0.0001

BMI, body mass index.

a

Adjusted for all other variables in the table.

b

Reference category.

c

P trend for smoking status.