Table 1.
Meta-analysis results: Change in odds ratio of liver cancer after an additional year not drinking
| Compared to current drinkers | Compared to just quitters | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Dose (A year of not drinking) | 1.08 | 1.40 | 1.07 | 0.94 | 0.93 | 0.93 |
| Dose squared | 0.98 | 1.00 | ||||
| Controls for: | ||||||
| Study characteristics* | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Radiation fall out | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Quit in last ten years | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Dose*Study characteristics | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Q statistic # | 144.3 | 55.8 | 15.9 | 19.0 | 18.1 | 6.6 |
*Study characteristics = 1 if the study was in Japan, a prospective cohort design, had no minimum gap between giving up drinking and joining study, and no controls for hepatitis. # pr>Chi2 that there is no heterogeneity according to the Q statistic. Bold represents statistically significant figures at the 95% confidence level, or Q statistic finds no heterogeneity