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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2016 Apr 22;27(6):797–803. doi: 10.1007/s10552-016-0747-0

Table 3.

Medical history predictors of mouthwash donation among women in the BWHS (2005)

Characteristic Total analytic sample
48,986
Returned mouthwash kit
26,790
Crude RR Age and education adjusted RR
Reported a chronic condition between 1995 and 2005
  Heart attack 887 58.5 1.07 (1.01, 1.13) 1.00 (0.95, 1.06)
  Stroke 904 61.4 1.13 (1.07, 1.19) 1.05 (1.00, 1.11)
  Diabetes 5,864 59.4 1.10 (1.07, 1.12) 1.04 (1.02, 1.07)
  Hypertension 20,865 58.2 1.12 (1.10,1.14) 1.05 (1.04, 1.07)
  High cholesterol 16,938 58.9 1.12 (1.10, 1.14) 1.07 (1.05, 1.09)
  Cancer 2,398 61.6 1.12 (1.09, 1.15) 1.06 (1.03, 1.10)
  Any of above 20,902 58.6 1.14 (1.10, 1.18) 1.07 (1.06, 1.09)
  None of above 28,084 51.8 1.00 1.00
Family history of breast cancer (1999)
  No 45,749 54.6 1.00 1.00
  Yes 3,237 56.5 1.04 (1.00, 1.07) 1.01 (0.98, 1.04)
Family history of other cancers (1999)
  No 35,110 53.2 1.00 1.00
  Yes 13,876 58.4 1.10 (1.08, 1.12) 1.06 (1.04, 1.07)
Family history of heart attack/stroke (1999)
  No 33,751 53.5 1.00 1.00
  Yes 15,235 57.3 1.07 (1.05, 1.09) 1.03 (1.01, 1.05)
Family history of diabetes (1999)
  No 35,733 54.1 1.00 1.00
  Yes 13,253 56.3 1.04 (1.02, 1.06) 1.03 (1.01, 1.04)
Physician visit between 2003 and 2005
  No 15,604 38.1 1.00 1.00
  Yes 33,382 62.5 1.64 (1.60, 1.68) 1.61 (1.58, 1.65)
Colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy between 2003 and 2005
  No 39,526 52.2 1.00 1.00
  Yes 9,460 65.2 1.25 (1.23, 1.27) 1.18 (1.16, 1.20)
Mammogram between 2003 and 2005
  No 18,604 40.2 1.00 1.00
  Yes 30,382 63.6 1.58 (1.55, 1.61) 1.59 (1.56, 1.63)
Pap smear between 2003 and 2005
  No 15,155 38.2 1.00 1.00
  Yes 33,831 62.1 1.62 (1.59, 1.66) 1.63 (1.60, 1.67)