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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Jul 8;20(9):1861–1864. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0360

Table 2.

Hazard ratios (HR) of colorectal cancer (CRC), colon cancer, and rectal cancer in relation to eosinophil count at baseline in ARIC, 1987–2006

Eosinophil count, cells/mcl	Number of CRC	Person-years	Hazard ratio (95%CI)
Eosinophil count, cells/mcl	Number of CRC	Person-years	CRC Model 1^a	CRC Model 2^b	Colon cancer Model 2^b	Rectal cancer Model 2^b
≤70	96	59,004	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
70–176	84	59,310	0.81 (0.59;1.12)	0.70 (0.50;0.98)	0.74 (0.51;1.07)	0.54 (0.25;1.17)
≥177	62	56,685	0.64 (0.46;0.91)	0.58 (0.40;0.83)	0.49 (0.32;0.75)	0.90 (0.45;1.79)
P-trend			0.01	0.003	0.001	0.85

Model 1-adjusted for age, race, sex, and ARIC center

Model 2 -- Model 1, additionally adjusted for education, BMI, smoking status and pack-years of smoking, alcohol, diabetes, WBC count and fibrinogen.