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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2016 Aug 18;27(11):1293–1300. doi: 10.1007/s10552-016-0792-8

Table 5.

Hazard ratios for survival according to intake of sugars from beverages stratified by cancer subtype and anatomic site

	Soft drinks		Fruit juices		SB1^a		SB2^b
	Dead/all	aHR (95 % CI)	Dead/all	aHR (95 % CI)	Dead/all	aHR (95 % CI)	Dead/all	aHR (95 % CI)
UADT
Lower median	94/293	1.0	119/292	1.0	108/296	1.0	107/303	1.0
Upper median	151/303	1.79 (1.37–2.34)	126/304	1.15 (0.89–1.49)	132/293	1.44 (1.10–1.88)	138/293	1.40 (1.07–1.82)
Oropharyngeal
Lower median	50/166	1.0	69/161	1.0	62/168	1.0	57/170	1.0
Upper median	76/170	1.65 (1.13–2.39)	57/175	0.70 (0.48–1.01)	64/168	1.0 (0.69–1.44)	69/166	1.16 (0.81–1.66)
Laryngeal
Lower median	13/45	1.0	16/50	1.0	15/46	1.0	12/45	1.0
Upper median	19/44	1.45 (0.65–3.25)	16/39	1.36 (0.58–3.17)	17/43	1.05 (0.47–2.36)	20/44	1.71 (0.71–4.10)
Esophageal
Lower median	25/55	1.0	24/53	1.0	23/53	1.0	27/53	1.0
Upper median	38/53	2.29 (1.32–3.93)	39/55	2.39 (1.34–4.30)	40/55	2.58 (1.45–4.60)	36/55	1.94 (1.06–3.53)
Nasopharyngeal
Lower median	4/22	1.0	7/21	1.0	3/23	1.0	4/24	1.0
Upper median	12/25	2.15 (0.47–9.83)	9/26	1.43 (0.32–6.35)	13/24	3.38 (0.79–14.47)	12/23	1.32 (0.31–5.67)
Squamous^c
Lower median	66/224	1.0	90/225	1.0	81/229	1.0	72/229	1.0
Upper median	107/237	1.65 (1.20–2.26)	83/236	0.93 (0.68–1.26)	92/232	1.12 (0.82–1.53)	101/232	1.36 (0.99–1.86)
Adenocarcinoma^d
Lower median	18/38	1.0	17/37	1.0	17/36	1.0	16/36	1.0
Upper median	24/36	1.84 (0.92–3.68)	25/37	1.60 (0.79–3.25)	25/38	1.51 (0.72–3.16)	23/38	1.44 (0.57–3.62)

SB1, Sugars from soft drinks and fruit juices (g/day)

SB2, Sugars from soft drinks, fruit juices, and sugar added to tea, coffee or cereal (g/day)

Does not include esophageal cancers

Esophageal cancers only