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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 24.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2008 Dec 20;27(29):6158–6174. doi: 10.1002/sim.3434

Table 2.

Covariates and odds ratios extracted from the literature

Covariate Odds Ratio β-coefficient+ Reference
Smoking 15 2.708 Le Marchand et al., 2002
Alcohol 2.1 0.7419 Bandera, E. V., et al. 2001
XPD 1.84 0.6098 Spitz et al., 2001
Fiber 1 0
Folate .53 −0.6349 Shen et al. 2003
MTHFR .6 −0.5108 Shi et al. 2005*
*

The odds ratio for MTHFR is actually the lower endpoint of the 95% confidence interval in this source.

+

β-coefficient = log(odds ratio)