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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2010 Apr 7;21(8):1265–1275. doi: 10.1007/s10552-010-9554-1

Table 3.

Odds ratio for lymphoma according to current measured 25(OH)D, Rochester, New York, 2005–2007.

Vitamin D
Controls n=132 All Lymphoma Cases
Only NHL Cases
25(OH)D range (ng/ml) Cases n=132 Adjusteda odds ratio (95% confidence interval) Cases n=121 Adjusteda odds ratio (95% confidence interval)
Insufficient (<30) 97 98 0.89 (0.47–1.72) 88 0.86 (0.44–1.68)
Sufficient (≥30) 35 34 1.0 (reference) 34 1.0 (reference)
Tertileb 1 (<20.9) 42 55 1.32 (0.66–2.66) 50 1.38 (0.67–2.85)
Tertile 2 (20.9–28.5) 45 37 0.79 (0.39–1.63) 33 0.79 (0.38–1.68)
Tertile 3 (≥28.6) 45 40 1.0 (reference) 38 1.0 (reference)
ptrendc 0.39 0.35
Continuous 132 132 0.99 (0.96–1.03) 121 0.99 (0.96–1.03)

NHL, non-Hodgkin lymphoma;

a

ORs adjusted for age (continuous), gender, race (white, black, other), prior skin cancer diagnosis (BCC, SCC, melanoma), known family history of lymphoma, known family history of other cancer, BMI (continuous), and season (Winter: December–February; Spring/Fall: March–May, September–November; Summer: June–August);

b

Tertiles set according to distribution of serum 25(OH)D levels among the controls;

c

ptrend is based on ordinal score.