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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2013 Mar;24(2):10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182801cb4. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182801cb4

Table 1.

Odds Ratios and 95% Confidence Intervals for Injury Related to Drinking from Case-control and Usual-Frequency Case-crossover Analysis, and ORs from Control-crossover Analysis, by Study Location and Pooled Estimates

Studies No. injured (No. exposeda) No. not injured (No. exposeda) Case-control ORs (95%CIs) Case-crossover ORs (95%CIs) Control-crossover ORs (95%CIs) Case-crossover Adj ORsb (95%CIs)
San Francisco, CA, US 550 (191) 1,276 (199) 2.6 (2.1–3.3) 5.7 (4.6–7.0) 1.8 (1.5–2.1) 3.2 (2.4–4.1)
Contra Costa, CA, US 1,001 (190) 1,363 (194) 1.1 (0.9–1.4) 2.9 (2.4–3.4) 3.2 (2.7–3.8) 0.9 (0.7–1.1)
Kaiser hospital, CA, US 410 (34) 546 (39) 1.0 (0.6–1.7) 1.1 (0.8–1.6) 1.6 (1.2–2.3) 0.7 (0.4–1.1)
Jackson, MS, US 275 (62) 739 (48) 3.0 (1.9–4.5) 7.8 (5.4–11.1) 2.2 (1.6–3.0) 3.5 (2.2–5.6)
Santa Clara, CA, US 288 (44) 988 (62) 2.3 (1.5–3.6) 3.0 (2.1–4.4) 2.0 (1.5–2.7) 1.5 (0.9–2.4)
Mexico City, Mexico 1,609 (434) 533 (43) 3.0 (2.2–4.3) 24.0 (20.8–27.8) 4.1 (2.8–5.9) 5.9 (4.0–8.7)
Acapulco, Mexico 342 (99) 289 (30) 3.0 (1.9–4.8) 29.5 (21.8–39.9) 4.4 (3.0–6.5) 6.7 (4.1–10.9)
Pachuca, Mexico 668 (96) 727 (20) 4.1 (2.5–6.9) 18.1 (13.5–24.3) 3.4 (2.1–5.6) 5.3 (3.1–9.5)
Alberta, Canada 335 (96) 494 (44) 3.6 (2.4–5.3) 7.6 (5.7–10.0) 2.3 (1.7–3.2) 3.2 (2.1–5.0)
Quebec, Canada 263 (41) 387 (52) 1.0 (0.6–1.6) 3.6 (2.5–5.1) 3.5 (2.6–4.7) 1.0 (0.7–1.6)
Barcelona, Spain 1,683 (262) 679 (88) 1.1 (0.9–1.5) 1.1 (1.0–1.3) 1.0 (0.8–1.3) 1.1 (0.9–1.5)
Triste, Italy 303 (118) 157 (37) 1.8 (1.1–2.8) 2.9 (2.2–3.8) 1.4 (0.9–2.0) 2.1 (1.3–3.3)
Mar del Plata, Argentina 378 (85) 417 (44) 1.9 (1.2–2.8) 3.0 (2.3–3.8) 1.5 (1.1–2.1) 2.0 (1.3–3.0)
Warsaw, Poland 507 (45) 205 (6) 2.8 (1.1–6.8) 2.4 (1.7–3.3) 1.5 (0.6–3.8) 1.5 (0.6–4.0)
Sosnowiec, Poland 421 (67) 306 (19) 2.4 (1.4–4.2) 3.7 (2.8–4.9) 2.8 (1.6–4.7) 1.4 (0.7–2.5)
Pooled estimatec 2.1 (1.6–2.7) 4.7 (2.6–8.5) 2.2 (1.8–2.8) 2.1 (1.5–3.1)
a

Injured and not injured patients are exposed to acute drink if they consumed alcohol 6-hour before their injury or illness events

b

Adjusted ratios are case-crossover ORs divided by control-crossover ORs

c

Pooled random effects from meta-analysis.