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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol. 2015 Nov 21;40:15–21. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2015.10.026

Table 4.

Adjusted ORs for pancreatic cancer for categories of WCRF/AICR score and for a unit increment. Italy 1991–2008.

WCRF/AICR Score ^a	Cases (%l)	Controls (%)	Adjusted OR (95% CI)^b
<3.5	86 (28.8)	112 (18.8)	1^c
3.5–<4	58 (19.4)	107 (18.0)	0.80 (0.49, 1.28)
4–<5	110 (36.8)	238 (39.9)	0.54 (0.35, 0.82)
≥ 5	45 (15.1)	139 (23.3)	0.41 (0.24, 0.68)
p-value for trend			0.0002
Adjusted OR for a unit increment			0.72 (0.60, 0.87)

AICR: American Institute of Cancer Research; OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; WCRF: World Cancer Research Fund.

The sum is not the total number of subjects due to missing values.

Covariates include: sex, study center, year of interview, age, education, tobacco smoking, and history of diabetes. A score of <3.5 was used as the reference.

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