Table 4. Hazard ratio (95% confidence intervals) for a 1 standard deviation (6 cm) increase in height in relation to selected cancer outcomes – overall and with 3 yr left censoring.
| Sex | Overall (N=506,648) | With 3 yr. left censoring (N=482,438) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of deaths | HR (95% CI) | No. of deaths | HR (95% CI) | ||
| All malignancies | M F |
5232 2265 |
1.05 (1.02, 1.08) 1.09 (1.05, 1.14) |
3479 1664 |
1.08 (1.03, 1.14) 1.21 (1.12, 1.30) |
| Intestine | M F |
401 276 |
1.09 (1.00, 1.20) 1.11 (0.99, 1.25) |
293 220 |
1.16 (1.01, 1.33) 1.27 (1.06, 1.52) |
| Liver | M F |
800 126 |
0.97 (0.90, 1.04) 1.26 (1.05, 1.52) |
511 80 |
0.96 (0.83, 1.12) 2.02 (1.32, 3.10) |
| Lung | M F |
1226 332 |
1.06 (1.00, 1.12) 1.08 (0.97, 1.21) |
738 229 |
1.10 (1.00, 1.21) 1.24 (1.04, 1.49) |
| Breast | M F |
* 318 |
1.11 (0.99, 1.24) |
* 228 |
1.23 (1.04, 1.45) |
| Stomach | M F |
608 233 |
1.04 (0.96, 1.13) 1.11 (0.96, 1.27) |
391 |
1.06 (0.87, 1.29) 1.02 (0.72, 1.43) |
| Prostate | M F |
274** | 1.06 (0.95, 1.18) |
207** | 1.16 (0.98, 1.37) |
All hazard ratios are age, study, and year of birth adjusted
*
too few events to run analyses
**
not applicab