Table 6.

Multivariate hazard ratios for nutritional indices and intakes for cancer mortality^*

(Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals)

	Hazard ratios (per SD)	95%CI	P	Hazard ratios (per SD)	95%CI	P
	Model (a): died n 140, alive n 337			Model (b): died n 92, alive n 243
Plasma Se (μmol/l)	0·72	0·58, 0·89	0·002	0·79	0·63, 0·99	0·04
Plasma Zn (μmol/l)	0·69	0·55, 0·86	0·001	0·70	0·56, 0·88	0·002
Dietary vitamin E (mg/d)	0·13	0·04, 0·42	0·001	0·23	0·06, 0·84	0·026
	Model (c): died n 90, alive n 242			Model (d): died n 87, alive n 227
Plasma Se (μmol/l)	0·76	0·60, 0·96	0·024	0·78	0·60, 1·01	0·06
Plasma Zn (μmol/l)	0·74	0·58, 0·95	0·019	0·74	0·57, 0·96	0·03
Dietary vitamin E (mg/d)	0·16	0·04, 0·65	0·011	0·19	0·04, 0·81	0·025

^*If haem Fe is added to these models of cancer mortality, it is a significant predictor, higher values being associated with greater cancer mortality, as follows: Model 1, 1·18 (1·03, 1·35) (0·014); Model 2, 1·15 (0·99, 1·34) (0·06); Model 3: 1·27 (1·08, 1·49) (0·003); Model 4: 1·26 (1·06, 1·50) (0·008). Please see the legend to Table 4 for an explanation of the four models, which follow on from the data, for primary cancer mortality, in the left-hand data column in Table 3.