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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol. 2011 Feb 10;35(4):362–368. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2011.01.005

Table 3.

Interactions between green tea and other risk factors.

Cases
N
Controls
N
cOR and 95% CI aOR and 95% CIa
Green tea drinking Alcohol drks/day
 Ever <2 46 105 Ref Ref
 Ever ≥2 27 76 0.81 (0.46–1.42) 0.85 (0.44–1.64)
 Never ≤2 86 191 1.03 (0.67–1.58) 0.93 (0.52–1.66)
 Never >2 25 25 2.28 (1.19–4.39) 2.68 (1.24–5.82)
 OR for interaction 2.74 (1.20–6.27) 3.40 (1.26–9.16)
Green tea drinking Smoking
 Ever Never 22 60 Ref Ref
 Ever Ever 51 121 1.15 (0.64–2.07) 0.76 (0.38–1.55)
 Never Never 61 153 1.09 (0.61–1.93) 0.89 (0.41–1.90)
 Never Ever 50 63 2.17 (1.17–4.00) 1.34 (0.63–2.85)
 OR for interaction 1.73 (0.81–3.69) 1.98 (0.78–5.03)
Green tea drinking HBV/HCV infection
 Ever No 26 126 Ref Ref
 Ever Yes 45 55 3.97 (2.23–7.06) 3.88 (2.10–7.19)
 Never No 31 163 0.92 (0.52–1.63) 1.01 (0.52–1.94)
 Never Yes 79 52 7.36 (4.26–12.74) 7.29 (3.84–13.82)
OR for interaction 2.02 (0.93–4.38) 1.87 (0.81–4.31)
Green tea drinking AFB1
 Ever Low 35 117 Ref Ref
 Ever High 32 44 2.43 (1.35–4.39) 2.17 (1.14–4.15)
 Never Low 57 127 1.50 (0.92–2.45) 1.55 (0.86–2.81)
 Never High 40 73 1.83 (1.07–3.14) 1.90 (1.00–3.61)
 OR for interaction 0.50 (0.23–1.09) 0.56 (0.24–1.32)
a

Adjusted for age, gender, education, income, BMI, family history, pack-year, alcohol drinking and HBSAg.