Table 3.
Observed relationship between milk drinking and renal cell carcinoma group in Eastern European populations.
| Cases | Controls | OR (95%CI) (ever vs never) |
p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ever | Never | Ever | Never | |||
| Romania | 88 (97.8) |
2 (2.2) |
174 (97.8) |
4 (2.2) |
1.57 (0.17, 14.73) |
0.7 |
| Poland | 69 (85.2) |
12 (14.8) |
690 (85.7) |
115 (14.3) |
0.96 (0.50, 1.87) |
0.9 |
| Russia | 239 (83.3) |
48 (16.7) |
648 (81.3) |
149 (18.7) |
1.18 (0.75, 1.84) |
0.5 |
| Czech Rep. | 445 (90.1) |
49 (9.9) |
518 (84.1) |
98 (15.9) |
1.68 (1.13, 2.49) |
0.01 |
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| All countries | Meta-analysis | 1.35 (1.03, 1.76) |
0.03 | |||
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| Heterogeneity | I2=0% | Phet=0.5 | ||||
Numbers and proportion of individuals by RCC status and milk drinking category. P represents logistic regression adjusted for age, sex, education, smoking and drinking.