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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2015 Mar 30;122(6):1257–1261. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2015.02.034

Table 2.

Multivariate logistic regressions predicting new onset uveitis by smoking status

Odds ratio: Cases
vs General Controls
(95% CI)
p-
value
Odds ratio: Cases
vs Ophthalmology
Controls (95% CI)
p-
value
Smoking Status (vs Never)
Current Smoker 1.63 (0.88 – 3.00) 0.12 2.33 (1.22 – 4.45) 0.01
Past Smoker 0.73 (0.40 – 1.35) 0.32 0.82 (0.44 – 1.53) 0.53
Passive (Secondhand) 1.96 (0.19 – 20.06) 0.57 1.28 (0.96 – 17.19) 0.85
Age (by decade) 0.99 (0.87 – 1.14) 0.94 0.72 (0.63 – 0.83) <0.001
Sex
Male 1.33 (0.84 – 2.10) 0.57 1.16 (0.72 – 1.86) 0.54
Median Income (by $10,000) 0.99 (0.87 – 1.12) 0.82 0.95 (0.83 – 1.09) 0.49
Race (vs Caucasian)
Alaskan/Native American 1.13 (0.13 – 9.99) 0.92 0.64 (0.07 – 6.32) 0.70
Asian 1.68 (0.92 – 3.10) 0.09 1.16 (0.62 – 2.15) 0.65
African American 11.80 (0.98 – 141.77) 0.05 1.52 (0.24 – 9.53) 0.65
Pacific Islander 0.91 (0.44 – 1.87) 0.80 0.79 (0.40 – 1.92) 0.55
Unknown 1.23 (0.59 – 2.58) 0.59 0.95 (0.83 – 1.09) 0.73

CI= confidence interval