Table 3.

Age- and sex-adjusted risk for the biochemical and nutritional indices for primary cancer and primary respiratory disease mortality^*

(Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals)

	Cancer mortality: died n 140, alive n 337			Respiratory disease mortality: died n 112, alive n 337*
	Age- and sex-adjusted hazard ratios	95% CI	P	Age- and sex-adjusted hazard ratios	95% CI	P
Biochemical indices (per SD)
Plasma vitamin C (μmol/l)	0·81	0·66, 0·99	0·035	0·78	0·63, 0·96	0·02
Plasma vitamin A (μmol/l)	0·90	0·73, 1·12	0·4	0·88	0·70, 1·11	0·3
Plasma α-tocopherol (μmol/l)	0·96	0·87, 1·06	0·4	0·76	0·60, 0·96	0·02
Plasma γ-tocopherol (μmol/l)	0·89	0·71, 1·13	0·3	0·84	0·65, 1·08	0·2
Plasma α-carotene (nmol/l)	0·67	0·47, 0·96	0·03	0·94	0·75, 1·18	0·6
Plasma β-carotene (nmol/l)	0·87	0·69, 1·10	0·25	0·84	0·67, 1·05	0·13
Plasma β-cryptoxanthin (nmol/l)	0·86	0·66, 1·13	0·3	0·80	0·58, 1·09	0·16
Plasma luteinþzeaxanthin (nmol/l)	1·06	0·87, 1·30	0·5	0·77	0·60, 0·99	0·04
Plasma lycopene (nmol/l)	1·06	0·87, 1·30	0·5	0·77	0·59, 1·00	0·05
Plasma Se (μmol/l)	0·72	0·58, 0·89	0·002	0·65	0·51, 0·82	<0·001
Blood glutathione peroxidase   (nmol NADPH/mg Hb per min)	1·00	0·81, 1·23	1·0	0·83	0·65, 1·05	0·12
Plasma Zn (μmol/l)	0·69	0·55, 0·86	0·001	0·79	0·62, 0·99	0·04
Plasma Cu (μmol/l)	1·18	0·92, 1·49	0·2	1·12	0·89, 1·41	0·3
Plasma Fe (μmol/l)	0·73	0·59, 0·89	0·002	0·83	0·66, 1·04	0·11
Plasma Fe % saturation (%)	0·72	0·58, 0·89	0·002	0·93	0·74, 1·16	0·5
Plasma α1-antichymotrypsin (g/l)	1·08	0·91, 1·27	0·4	1·15	0·98, 1·36	0·09
Daily dietary intakes (per SD)
Energy (kJ)	0·82	0·67, 1·01	0·06	0·85	0·66, 1·08	0·2
Vitamin C (mg)	0·73	0·57, 0·94	0·015	0·81	0·62, 1·05	0·11
Vitamin A (mg)	1·03	0·88, 1·019	0·7	0·87	0·70, 1·09	0·2
Vitamin E (mg)	0·13	0·04, 0·42	0·001	0·32	0·10, 1·08	0·07
Total carotenoids (mg)	0·92	0·77, 1·10	0·3	0·74	0·59, 0·93	0·01
Zn (mg)	0·86	0·71, 1·04	0·11	0·88	0·70, 1·09	0·2
Cu (mg)	0·87	0·71, 1·04	0·2	0·96	0·78, 1·18	0·7
Non-haem Fe (mg)	1·05	0·93, 1·18	0·4	0·97	0·79, 1·27	1·0
Haem Fe (mg)	1·18	1·03, 1·35	0·014	0·96	0·80, 1·15	0·7

^*As explained in the legend to Table 1, these were the study maximum values for n; the actual values for each index were the same as shown in Table 1.