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. 2013 Mar;103(3):e52–e60. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301103

TABLE 2—

Analyses of Weighted Average Effect Sizes Across Type of Preexisting Health Condition: 1990–2010

Type of Health Conditiona Studies, No. OR (95% CI)
None apparent (community samples) 13 0.70 (0.58, 0.85)
Cardiovascular disease 11 0.75 (0.61, 0.91)
Cancer 7 1.21 (0.92, 1.59)
HIV/AIDS 6 0.86 (0.64, 1.17)
Other conditions 21 0.84 (0.72, 0.99)

Note. CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio, transformed from random effects weighted natural log OR; Qb = Q-value for variance between groups.

a

Qb = 115; P = .02.