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. 2011 Jul 18;174(5):563–573. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwr127

Table 3.

Relative Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma According to Household Passive Smoking Exposure Among Never Smokers, California Teachers Study, 1995–2007a

Household Passive Smoking Characteristic Person-Years Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
Follicular Lymphoma
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma
No. of Cases RR 95% CI No. of Cases RR 95% CI No. of Cases RR 95% CI No. of Cases RR 95% CI
Never smokers with no passive smoking exposure 255,211 87 1.00 Referent 27 1.00 Referent 14 1.00 Referent 17 1.00 Referent
Never smokers with passive smoking exposure 618,868 284 1.15 0.90, 1.46 66 0.92 0.58, 1.44 64 1.66 0.93, 2.98 52 0.93 0.54, 1.62
    Childhood passive smoking exposure only 280,155 91 1.07 0.80, 1.44 21 0.86 0.48, 1.54 19 1.38 0.69, 2.76 16 0.93 0.47, 1.85
    Adulthood passive smoking exposure only 124,527 76 1.18 0.86, 1.61 20 1.02 0.57, 1.84 15 1.58 0.76, 3.31 14 0.92 0.45, 1.87
    Both childhood and adulthood passive smoking exposure 204,464 115 1.23 0.93, 1.63 25 0.93 0.53, 1.61 29 2.02 1.06, 3.87 22 0.99 0.52, 1.88

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; RR, relative risk.

a

All models were stratified by age at cohort entry and adjusted for race (non-Hispanic white or other) and alcohol consumption 1 year before cohort entry (0 g/day, <15 g/day, ≥15 g/day, or unknown). The analyses were restricted to 79,006 never smokers.