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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2017 Jan 17;28(2):127–136. doi: 10.1007/s10552-016-0843-1

Table 4.

Hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) for total cancer mortality, lung cancer mortality, and non-lung cancer mortality by cut-off points of components of metabolic syndrome among 14,916 participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988–2006

Components^a	No. of Cancer Deaths	Person-Years	Total Cancer Mortality HR (95% CI)^a n=687		Lung Cancer Mortality HR (95% CI)^a n=201		Non-Lung Cancer Mortality HR (95% CI)^a n=486

			Age-Adjusted	Multivariable-Adjusted	Age-Adjusted	Multivariable -Adjusted	Age-Adjusted	Multivariable -Adjusted
Waist circumference
<102cm men or <88cm women	349	119,552	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
≥102cm men or ≥88cm women	338	81,962	1.18 (0.99–1.41)	1.29 (1.08–1.55)	0.84 (0.62–1.12)	0.91 (0.67–1.23)	1.34 (1.06–1.68)	1.41 (1.11–1.79)
Systolic blood pressure
<130 mmHg	262	141,295	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
≥130 mmHg	425	60,219	1.23 (1.01–1.49)	1.21 (1.00–1.47)	1.21 (0.87–1.67)	1.24 (0.90–1.72)	1.30 (1.02–1.66)	1.27 (0.99–1.62)
Serum triglycerides (mg/dl)
<150 mg/dL	426	140,772	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
≥150 mg/dL	261	60,743	0.92 (0.77–1.10)	0.89 (0.74–1.07)	0.90 (0.67–1.22)	0.82 (0.60–1.11)	0.93 (0.74–1.17)	0.92 (0.73–1.17)
Serum HDL cholesterol (mg/dl)
≥40 mg/dLmen/≥50mg/dl women	400	121,550	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
<40 mg/dLmen/<50mg/dl women	287	79,964	1.27 (1.07–1.51)	1.23 (1.03–1.47)	1.24 (0.94–1.66)	1.06 (0.79–1.42)	1.33 (1.07–1.66)	1.36 (1.08–1.71)
Serum glucose (mg/dl)
<100 mg/dL	390	150,150	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
≥100 mg/dL	297	51,365	1.38 (1.16–1.65)	1.36 (1.13–1.63)	1.12 (0.82–1.52)	1.07 (0.78–1.47)	1.58 (1.26–1.97)	1.56 (1.24–1.97)

Adjusted for age (years), gender, race (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Mexican American, and other race), education (no education, less than high school, high school, college education, and graduate education), cigarette smoking (current, former, and never), alcohol intake (yes or no), and use of insulin or diabetes, hypertension, and cholesterol-lowering medications (yes or no for each of the medications).