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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Immigr Minor Health. 2013 Oct;15(5):910–917. doi: 10.1007/s10903-012-9690-7

Table 2.

Relationship of smoking-related covariates and prior respiratory disease with lung cancer risk in a Texas Case–Control Study of Mexican Americans, 1991–2010

Variable No. of cases (%) No. of controls (%) Multivariate odds ratioa 95 % confidence interval
Smoking status
 Never 43 21.1 110 33.9
 Former 72 35.3 118 36.3 1.6 1.0, 2.6
 Current 89 43.6 97 29.9 2.4 1.5, 4.0
Current smokers
Smoking duration
 ≤30 years 15 16.9 30 32.6
 >30 years 74 83.1 62 67.4 1.9 0.8, 4.5
No. of cigarettes/day
 ≤20 per day 58 65.2 81 87.1
 >20 per day 31 34.8 12 12.9 3.7 1.7, 8.1
Smoking intensity
 Light smoker: 0<pack-years ≤ 20 13 14.6 47 51.1
 Moderate smoker: 20<pack-years ≤ 40 24 27.0 23 25.0 4.2 1.7, 10.3
 Heavy smoker: 40<pack-years 52 58.4 22 23.9 10.0 4.0, 24.7
Former smokers
Smoking duration
 ≤30 years 25 34.7 70 62.0
 >30 years 47 65.3 43 38.0 1.8 0.9, 3.7
No. of cigarettes/day
 ≤20 per day 43 59.7 93 82.3
 >20 per day 29 40.3 20 17.7 3.3 1.5, 7.1
Smoking intensity
 Light smoker: 0<pack-years ≤ 20 21 29.2 76 67.3
 Moderate smoker: 20<pack-years ≤ 40 21 41.7 21 18.6 3.6 1.6, 8.33
 Heavy smoker: 40<pack-years 30 29.2 16 14.2 5.8 2.4, 13.9
Years since smoking cessation
 ≤10 years 42 58.3 49 41.5
 >10 years 30 41.7 69 58.5 0.4 0.2, 0.7
Age at smoking cessation
 ≤30 years 2 2.8 25 21.2
 >30 years 70 97.2 93 78.8 5.8 1.2, 27.4
Smoking cessation
 Years>10, Age ≤30 2 2.8 22 18.6
 Years<10, Age ≤30 0 0.0 3 2.5
 Years>10, Age>30 28 38.9 47 39.8 3.7 0.7, 18.8
 Years<10, Age>30 42 58.3 46 39.0 8.2 1.6, 40.6
Respiratory co-morbidities
 No respiratory disease 115 57.2 224 68.9
 Any respiratory disease 86 42.8 101 31.1 1.5 1.0, 2.3
 No Asthma 184 92.5 305 93.8
 Asthma 15 7.5 20 6.2 1.3 0.6, 2.8
 No COPD 154 77.0 285 88.0
 COPD 46 23.0 39 12.0 2.0 1.2, 3.3
 No hay fever 184 94.4 284 87.7
 Hay fever 11 5.6 40 12.3 0.4 0.2 0.9
 No pneumonia 148 75.1 286 88.0
 Pneumonia 49 24.9 39 12.0 2.2 1.3, 3.6
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All variables are adjusted for age, sex, and self-reported pesticide exposure. Respiratory co-morbidities are also adjusted for smoking intensity (number of smoking years/number of cigarettes per day)