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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Mar 17;20(5):954–961. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-10-1244

Table 2.

Association between self-reported diabetes and UGI cancers

Cancer Non-diabetics, n Diabetics, n Age-adjusted HR
(95% CI)
Multivariate-adjusted* HR
(95% CI)

Entire cohort ESCC 157 15 1.03 (0.60-1.74) 1.02 (0.60-1.74)
EADC 482 52 1.16 (0.87-1.54) 0.98 (0.73-1.31)
GCA 291 61 2.23 (1.69-2.94) 1.89 (1.43-2.50)
GNCA 340 39 1.20 (0.86-1.68) 0.98 (0.70-1.37)

Males only ESCC 103 12 1.11 (0.61-2.01) 1.08 (0.59-1.98)
EADC 446 50 1.06 (0.79-1.42) 1.00 (0.74-1.34)
GCA 256 56 2.07 (1.55-2.76) 1.89 (1.41-2.54)
GNCA 239 27 1.05 (0.71-1.57) 0.90 (0.60-1.34)

Females only ESCC 54 3 0.74 (0.23-2.35) 0.87 (0.27-2.82)
EADC 36 2 0.75 (0.18-3.13) 0.68 (0.16-2.85)
GCA 35 5 1.83 (0.72-4.67) 1.77 (0.68-4.58)
GNCA 101 12 1.53 (0.84-2.78) 1.24 (0.67-2.28)
*

Potential confounders for the entire cohort models included age, sex, calories, alcohol consumption, smoking, fruit consumption, vegetable consumption, ethnicity, education, and physical activity; confounders for the males only or females only models included all these variables except sex.