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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2012 Feb 9;131(6):1407–1416. doi: 10.1002/ijc.27383

Table 2.

BMI change and lung and SCC UADT cancers.

Lung Cancer SCC UADT Cancer

Variables Ca/Co Crude OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted OR1
(95% CI)
Ca/Co Crude OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted OR2
(95% CI)
BMI at age 21
(kg/m2)
 <20.34 187/255 1.00 1.00 111/255 1.00 1.00
 20.34 to <22.15 148/259 0.77 (0.59, 1.02) 0.97 (0.69, 1.35) 108/259 0.95 (0.69, 1.31) 0.93 (0.64, 1.34)
 22.15 to <24.34 129/262 0.67 (0.50, 0.89) 0.89 (0.63, 1.27) 153/262 1.34 (0.99, 1.80) 1.19 (0.83, 1.72)
 ≥24.34 134/248 0.73 (0.55, 0.97) 0.93 (0.64, 1.34) 141/248 1.30 (0.96, 1.77) 1.25 (0.86, 1.81)
P trend 0.015 0.611 0.019 0.110
BMI 1yr before
interview (kg/m2)
 <18.5 18/13 1.89 (0.91, 3.93) 1.31 (0.55, 3.14) 13/13 1.76 (0.80, 3.87) 2.37 (0.95, 5.92)
 18.5 to <25 263/360 1.00 1.00 204/360 1.00 1.00
 25 to <30 214/397 0.73 (0.58, 0.92) 0.87 (0.66, 1.16) 199/397 0.88 (0.69, 1.12) 0.90 (0.68, 1.20)
 ≥30 114/257 0.60 (0.46, 0.79) 0.58 (0.41, 0.81) 109/257 0.74 (0.56, 0.99) 0.70 (0.50, 0.98)
P trend <0.001 0.001 0.014 0.013
BMI change
 <−5%
 (weight loss)
51/39 1.60 (0.99, 2.61) 1.09 (0.60, 1.98) 51/39 1.69 (1.04, 2.76) 1.32 (0.75, 2.31)
 −5% to <+5% 113/139 1.00 1.00 107/139 1.00 1.00
 5% to <15% 132/256 0.63 (0.45, 0.87) 0.76 (0.51, 1.13) 114/256 0.57 (0.41, 0.80) 0.61 (0.41, 0.90)
 15% to <25% 113/214 0.65 (0.46, 0.91) 0.72 (0.47, 1.09) 105/214 0.63 (0.45, 0.89) 0.69 (0.46, 1.04
 25% to <35% 67/153 0.53 (0.36, 0.78) 0.53 (0.33, 0.84) 51/153 0.43 (0.28, 0.64) 0.44 (0.27, 0.71)
 >35% 122/222 0.67 (0.48, 0.94) 0.53 (0.35, 0.80) 85/222 0.49 (0.34, 0.70) 0.51 (0.34, 0.78)
P trend* 0.040 0.001 <0.001 0.002
1

Adjusted for age, gender, ethnicity, tobacco smoking status, pack-years, education, calories.

2

Adjusted for age, gender, ethnicity, education, tobacco smoking status, pack-years, drinking status, drinking years, calories.

*

Negative BMI change (weight loss) excluded.

BMI: Body Mass Index, SCC: Squamous Cell Carcinoma