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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Feb;19(2):484. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0836

Table 5.

Relative risk (95% CI) of advanced prostate cancer associated with tertiles of acid-labile subunit and total IGF1 (A), free IGF1 (B) or IGFBP3 (C), cross-classified, Physicians’ Health Study, 1982–1995.

Table 5A. P for interaction = 0.10

Total IGF1 (tertiles)
N Exposed Cases/RR (95% CI)

Acid labile
subunit
(tertiles)
Low Medium High
Low 26 11 8
REF 1.5 (0.5–4.7) 9.3 (1.7–51.3)
Medium 15 17 23
4.0 (1.1–14.0) 2.6 (0.9–7.5) 6.0 (1.9–18.9)
High 10 28 22
3.1 (0.9–10.8) 6.6 (2.1–20.4) 5.0 (1.5–16.1)

Data are adjusted for age, smoking, height, body mass index, and IGFBP3 using conditional logistic regression
Table 5B. P for interaction = 0.29

Free IGF1 (tertiles)
Exposed Cases/RR (95% CI)
Acid labile
subunit
(tertiles)
Low Medium High
Low 21 14 8
REF 1.4 (0.5–3.9) 3.3 (0.7–15.4)
Medium 17 18 19
4.1 (1.3–13.5) 2.7 (0.9–8.5) 3.3 (1.0–10.5)
High 11 20 29
3.8 (1.1–13.3) 7.1 (2.1–24.2) 3.2 (1.1–9.2)

Data are adjusted for age, smoking, height, body mass index, and IGFBP3 using conditional logistic regression
Table 5C. P for interaction = 0.84

IGFBP3 (tertiles)
N Exposed Cases/RR (95% CI)
Acid labile
subunit
(tertiles)
Low Medium High
Low 32 10 3
REF 0.8 (0.2–2.6) 0.4 (0.1–2.9)
Medium 14 30 11
1.8 (0.6–5.3) 1.6 (0.6–4.1) 0.5 (0.1–1.5)
High 8 22 30
6.1 (1.2–30.1) 2.0 (0.7–5.7) 0.7 (0.3–1.6)

Data are adjusted for age, smoking, height, body mass index, and total IGF1 using conditional logistic regression