. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 23.

Published in final edited form as: Psychooncology. 2008 Jan;17(1):91–97. doi: 10.1002/pon.1194

Table 4.

Adjusted odds-ratios for cancer survivorship relative to other chronic conditions

Condition/Reference group	Female cancer survivors			Male cancer survivors

	All survivors	New cancers	Disease free	All survivors	New cancers	Disease free
Diabetes	1.39	1.98^*	1.26	1.16	2.52^*	0.93
Chronic lung disease	0.81	1.16	0.74	0.48^*	1.05	0.39^*
Heart disease	0.74	1.05	0.67^*	1.00	2.21^*	0.81
Stroke	0.95	1.36	0.86	0.60	1.36	0.50^*
Arthritis/rheumatism	0.64^*	0.91	0.58^*	0.81	1.76	0.65

Adjusted odds-ratio is significantly different from 1 (p<.05).

Adjusted odds ratios for cancer survivorship relative to other chronic conditions were calculated by dividing the odds ratio for cancer survivors in Table 3 (e.g. OR_{all female survivors} = 2.14) by the odds ratio for each chronic condition in Table 3 (e.g. OR_{female diabetics}. = 1.54, OR_{cancer compared to diabetes} = 2.14/1.54 = 1.39). Levels of statistical significance were determined from pair-wise Wald tests of the equality of coefficients in Table 3 (e.g. OR_{all female survivors} = OR_{female diabetics}).