Table 4.

Risk for esophageal cancer in relation to clinical categories of obesity and hypertension

Exposure	Category	Adenocarcinoma		Squamous cell carcinoma
		Crude RR	Adjusted RR 1	Crude RR	Adjusted RR 2
BMI in WHO categories	≤ 18.4	-	-	1.68 (0.62–4.56)	1.54 (0.56–4.19)
	18.5–25.0	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
	25.0–29.9	2.53 (1.66–3.88)	2.32 (1.51–3.57)	0.65 (0.47–0.90)	0.67 (0.49–0.93)
	≥ 30	2.69 (1.50–4.85)	3.29 (1.82–5.95)	0.39 (0.19–0.77)	0.47 (0.24–0.94)
	≥ 25	2.57 (1.70–3.88)	2.47 (1.63–3.74)	0.60 (0.44–0.82)	0.64 (0.47–0.87)
ESH/ESC hypertension criteria3	Normal	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
	Grade 1	1.13 (0.74–1.72)	0.90 (0.59–1.32)	1.34 (0.96–1.87)	1.61 (1.15–2.26)
	Grade 2	1.47 (0.84–2.57)	1.11 (0.63–1.96)	1.42 (0.89–2.26)	1.98 (1.23–3.17)
	Grade 3	0.93 (0.33–2.62)	0.66 (0.23–1.87)	1.96 (1.10–3.59)	2.95 (1.62–5.37)
	Grade 1–3	1.19 (0.81–1.74)	0.93 (0.63–1.37)	1.41 (1.04–1.91)	1.77 (1.30–2.42)
	Ptrend	0.39	0.72	0.01	<0.0001

Relative risks with 95% confidence interval for incident esophageal adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma related to BMI and blood pressure categorized in clinical criteria for obesity and hypertension. All analyses were stratified by study cohort and birth-year category.

¹Adjusted for sex, age at baseline (continuous) and smoking status.

²Adjusted for sex, age at baseline (continuous), smoking status and BMI (continuous).

³European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and European Society of Cardiology (ESC) criteria for hypertension: Normal blood pressure (BP): systolic BP < 140 and diastolic BP < 90. Grade I hypertension: systolic BP 140–159 or diastolic BP 90–99, grade II: systolic BP = 160–179 or diastolic BP = 100–109 and grade III: systolic BP ≥ 180 or diastolic BP ≥ 110.

Abbreviations: RR relative risk, CI confidence interval, BMI body mass index, WHO World Health Organization, ESH European Society of Hypertension, ESC European Society of Cardiology.