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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurol. 2012 May 23;259(10):2161–2166. doi: 10.1007/s00415-012-6476-8

Table 2.

Odds ratios of neoplasia associated with DM patients’ demographic and clinical characteristics.

History of Neoplasms Odds of neoplasm by patients’ characteristics

Characteristics Yes
N=95
No
N=816
Unadjusted Adjusted*

n=(%)/Median (Range) OR (95% CI) P-value OR (95% CI) P-value
DM Type
 DM1 79 (10.1) 702 (89.9) 0.80 (0.45–1.42) 0.45 2.11 (1.10–4.10) 0.03
 DM2 16 (12.3) 114 (87.7) Ref. Ref.

Sex
 Female 62 (13.0) 416 (87.0) 1.81 (1.16–2.82) 0.009 1.92 (1.20–3.10) 0.007
 Male 33 (7.6) 400 (92.4) Ref. Ref.

Age at Diagnosis (Yrs) 38 (0–69) 31 (0–70) 1.04 (1.02–1.05) <0.0001 0.99 (0.97–1.01) 0.33

Age at Enrollment (Yrs) 54 (18–80) 43 (0–80) 1.07 (1.05–1.09) <0.0001 1.08 (1.06–1.11) <0.0001

Abbreviations: DM=myotonic dystrophy, OR=Odds Ratio, CI=Confidence Interval

*

Adjusted for all other variables in the table