Table 2.
Age and sex adjusted relationships between confounders and quintiles of CRP
| CRP Quintile | ||||||
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| Confounder | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | p |
| Mean age¥ (n=22304) | 53.4 (53.0, 53.7) | 57.0 (56.6, 57.4) | 59.1 (58.7, 59.4) | 59.9 (59.5, 60.3) | 60.9 (60.5, 61.3) | <0.0001 |
| % Male# (n=22304) | 49.6 (48.4, 50.7) | 48.7 (47.9, 49.5) | 47.6 (46.9, 48.3) | 46.3 (45.5, 47.1) | 45.1 (44.0, 46.2) | <0.0001 |
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| % Ever smokers† (n=22304) | 55.4 (54.2, 56.5) | 59.3 (58.6, 60.2) | 62.6 (62.0, 63.3) | 65.5 (64.7, 66.2) | 68.0 (66.9, 69.0) | <0.0001 |
| % Ever drinkers† (n=22304) | 74.6 (73.6, 75.6) | 73.9 (73.2, 74.6) | 72.1 (71.5, 72.7) | 69.9 (69.2, 70.7) | 66.9 (65.8, 68.0) | <0.0001 |
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| % Low Income† (n=22017) | 35.2 (34.0, 36.4) | 45.9 45.0, 46.8 | 54.0 (53.2, 54.8) | 59.3 (58.4, 60.2) | 65.2 (64.0, 66.4) | <0.0001 |
| % High income† (n=22017) | 12.1 (11.3, 12.9) | 8.8 (8.4, 9.3) | 6.9 (6.5, 7.3) | 5.7 (5.3, 6.1) | 4.6 (4.2, 5.0) | <0.0001 |
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| % Low education† (n=22211) | 23.7 (22.7, 24.8) | 32.5 (31.6, 33.3) | 39.7 (38.9, 40.4) | 45.0 (44.1, 45.9) | 5.1 (4.9, 5.2) | <0.0001 |
| % High education† (n=22211) | 13.5 (12.7, 14.4) | 10.0 (9.5, 10.5) | 8.1 (7.7, 8.5) | 7.1 (6.7, 7.6) | 6.2 (5.7, 6.7) | <0.0001 |
†
indicates age and sex adjusted proportion (95%CI) of confounder by quintile of CRP.
¥
indicates sex adjusted proportion (95%CI) of confounder by quintile of CRP.
#
indicates age adjusted proportion (95%CI) of confounder by quintile of CRP.
Smoking and drinking are binary variables and are coded as: smoking ever/never smoked, drinking >36g/wk.
High/Low education and income are represented by upper and lower groups of the tripartite variables education = 0-9yrs, 10-12yrs, >13yrs and income = <400 000Kr, 400 000-600 000Kr, >600 000Kr.