Table 4. Associations between rate of methylation change and cancer.

	Cancer-free	All cancer			Prostate cancer
	n	n	HR (95% CI)	P-value	n	HR (95% CI)	P-value
Incidence
LINE-1	365	63	1.23 (0.29–5.11)	0.77	13	0.75 (0.03–19.1)	0.86
Alu			3.62 (1.09–12.1)	0.036a		1.58 (0.11–22.2)	0.73
Mortality
LINE-1	389	23	3.88 (0.44–34.1)	0.22	4	0.75 (0.03–19.1)	0.86
Alu			1.96 (0.37–10.2)	0.43		9.97 (0.14–700)	0.29

Abbreviations: CI=confidence interval; HR=hazard ratio.

^aStatistically significant at P<0.05.