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Published in final edited form as: Int J Epidemiol. 2007 Dec;36(6):1349–1355. doi: 10.1093/ije/dym178

Table 5.

Relation (odds ratios, 95% CI) of diarrhoea in infancy (n=4146) and between 1 and 5 years of age (n=4181) with adult coronary heart disease (individual cohorts and combined)

	Odds ratios
	Adjusted for age, sex	Multivariate-adjusted^a
Diarrhoea in infancy
1920–30 cohort	0.74 (0.22 to 2.45)	0.68 (0.20 to 2.26)
1931–39 cohort	0.96 (0.54 to 1.70)	0.86 (0.46 to 1.59)
Combined estimate	0.91 (0.54 to 1.54)	0.82 (0.47 to 1.42)
Diarrhoea aged 1–5 years
1920–30 cohort	0.44 (0.06 to 3.31)	0.47 (0.06 to 3.66)
1931–39 cohort	0.96 (0.28 to 3.24)	1.02 (0.30 to 3.49)
Combined estimate	0.77 (0.27 to 2.21)	0.84 (0.29 to 2.41)

Adjusted for age, sex, social class at birth and currently, method of infant feeding, birthweight and current BMI and height.