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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2015 Oct 26;24(12):1902–1906. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-15-0436

Table 2.

Study-specific associations between secondhand tobacco smoke exposure and lung adenocarcinoma in situ/minimally invasive adenocarcinoma by tobacco smoking status

All
Never smokers
Ever exposed to
secondhand smoke
Cases, n Controls, n OR1 (95% PLL) Cases, n Controls, n OR2 (95% PLL)
Mayo Clinic
  Never exposed 47 721 1 (reference) 21 386 1 (reference)
  Ever exposed 200 1,514 1.68 (1.22–2.37) 46 426 1.70 (1.04–2.84)
Harvard University
  Never exposed 4 54 1 (reference) 1 20 1 (reference)
  Ever exposed 192 1,459 1.41 (0.65–3.33) 27 459 0.91 (0.31–3.16)
FHS3
  Never exposed 0 76 1 (reference) 0 71 1 (reference)
  Ever exposed 32 836 2.66 (1.01–7.85) 24 463 2.67 (1.01–7.90)
UCLA4
  Never exposed 14 307 1 (reference) 11 199 1 (reference)
  Ever exposed 25 731 0.67 (0.34–1.41) 7 271 0.59 (0.25–1.35)
WELD5
  Never exposed 5 76 1 (reference) 4 53 1 (reference)
  Ever exposed 54 491 1.30 (0.60–3.12) 12 226 0.91 (0.35–2.52)
University of Hawaii
  Never exposed 3 45 1 (reference) 2 32 1 (reference)
  Ever exposed 35 542 0.98 (0.40–2.64) 10 192 0.95 (0.34–2.87)
CREST6
  Never exposed 1 241 1 (reference) 0 119 1 (reference)
  Ever exposed 13 310 2.56 (1.02–6.98) 5 118 2.04 (0.67–6.58)
P for heterogeneity across studies 0.010 0.005
1

Odds ratios are adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, tobacco smoking status (ever/never), and pack-years of smoking. PLL: profile-likelihood limits

2

Odds ratios are adjusted for age, sex, and race/ethnicity.

3

FHS: Family Health Study.

4

UCLA: University of California at Los Angeles

5

WELD: Women’s Epidemiology of Lung Disease

6

CREST: Cancer of the Respiratory Tract Biorepository.