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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 6.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2008 Oct 1;113(7):1566–1571. doi: 10.1002/cncr.23770

TABLE 2.

Multivariate Analysis of Association Between Patient Demographics and CDH1 Hypermethylation*

Characteristic CDH1 Methylation Status: No. of Patients (%)
OR [95% CI]
Negative Positive
Age, y
 <50 43 (63) 25 (37) Referent
 50–59 76 (66) 39 (34) 0.9 [0.5–1.7]
 60–69 57 (67) 28 (33) 0.9 [0.4–1.7]
 >70 51 (71) 21 (29) 0.7 [0.3–1.4]
Sex
 Women 54 (61) 35 (39) Referent
 Men 173 (69) 78 (31) 0.7 [0.4–1.2]
Pack-years smoked
 Never 38 (61) 24 (39) 1.4 [0.8–2.5]
 >0–10 16 (50) 16 (50) 2.4 [1.1–5]
 >10 164 (70) 71 (30) Referent
HPV-16 seropositivity
 Negative 168 (66) 85 (34) Referent
 Positive 59 (68) 28 (32) 0.9 [0.5–1.6]

CDH1 indicates the cadherin 1, type 1/E-cadherin; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; HPV-16, human papillomavirus type 16.

*

Note: The model was controlled for all variables in the table. Eleven patients were missing data on smoking history; they were coded as missing and were included in the model.

P <.03.