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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 21.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Res. 2008 Apr 1;68(7):2507–2513. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-6257

Table 4.

Relative risk (RR) of invasive endometrial cancer by frequency of non-steroidal antii-nflammatory medications (NSAIDs), acetaminophen or aspirin use (1990–2004)

# cases Total person-years Age-adjusted RR
(95% CI)
Multivariate RR
(95% CI)
Non-aspirin NSAID use
Non-user* 372 473,427 1.0 1.0
1 day/week 41 70,508 0.91 (0.65–1.27) 0.91 (0.65–1.27)
2–3 days/week 32 48,439 0.95 (0.66–1.36) 0.89 (0.61–1.28)
4–5 days/week 12 20,395 0.78 (0.44–1.39) 0.71 (0.40–1.27)
6–7 days/week 40 50,729 1.02 (0.73–1.41) 0.78 (0.56–1.08)
P for trend 0.80 0.31
Acetaminophen use
Non-user * 370 485,037 1.0 1.0
1 day/week 68 90,751 1.17 (0.90–1.53) 1.21 (0.92–1.60)
2–3 days/week 32 47,911 0.92 (0.64–1.32) 0.86 (0.60–1.25)
4–5 days/week 16 19,153 1.08 (0.71–1.56) 0.98 (0.59–1.62)
6–7 days/week 26 30,806 1.05 (0.71–1.56) 0.86 (0.57–1.30)
P for trend 0.87 0.20
Aspirin use
Non-user * 275 367,693 1.0 1.0
1 day/week 58 91,703 0.93 (0.70–1.23) 0.96 (0.72–1.29)
2–3 days/week 33 55,373 0.80 (0.56–1.14) 0.84 (0.58–1.20)
4–5 days/week 34 38,507 1.10 (0.77–1.57) 1.08 (0.75–1.55)
6–7 days/week 126 145,634 0.98 (0.79–1.22) 0.89 (0.72–1.11)
P for trend 0.99 0.37

Multivariate risks from proportional hazards models are adjusted for BMI (<20 [ref], 20 to <21, 21 to <22, 22 to <23, 23 to <24, 24 to <25, 25 to <27, 27 to <29, 29 to <30, 30 to <32, 32 to <35, 35 to <40, ≥ 40), duration of oral contraceptive use (never [ref], past use <3 years, past 3–5 years, past >5 years), pack years of smoking (never, >0 to 20 years, >20 to 40 years, > 40 years), type of postmenopausal hormone (PMH) use (never used PMH, past use, current use estrogen only, current use estrogen and progesterone), age at menopause (premenopausal [ref], postmenopausal <45 years, 45–49 years, 50–52 years, ≥ 53 years), parity (1–2 [ref], 3–4, ≥ 5), age at menarche (<12, 12 [ref], >12), hypertension (present, absent), diabetes (present, absent);referent group;

*

Non-users are women who did not report use on at least one day per week, and includes both current and past use.