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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Carcinog. 2017 May 24;56(9):2158–2164. doi: 10.1002/mc.22667

Table 3.

Association between pancreatic cancer and s-MICA levels stratified by sex, age, smoking status, alcohol consumption, and diabetes status,.

Gender

Categories Males Females

Concentration (pg/ml) Cases Controls OR (95%CI) †† Cases Controls OR(95%CI) †† P-value for interaction
2.0–32.0 21 95 Reference 16 68 Reference
32.1–64.7 24 95 1.41 (0.78 – 2.56) 20 62 1.49 (0.67 – 3.314)
≥64.7 43 71 3.39 (1.88 – 6.09) 19 68 1.03 (0.454 – 2.345) 0.1

Age

Categories Under 70 years old Over 70 years old

Concentration (pg/ml) Cases Controls OR (95%CI) †† Cases Controls OR(95%CI) †† P-value for interaction

2.0–32.0 20 96 Reference 17 67 Reference
32.1–64.7 26 96 1.058 (0.525 – 2.13) 18 61 1.28 (0.64 – 2.57)
≥64.7 36 66 2.27 (1.18 – 4.41) 26 73 1.55 (0.80 – 2.98) 0.07

Smoking Status

Categories Never Former Current

Concentration (pg/ml) Cases Controls OR (95%CI) ††† Cases Controls OR (95%CI) ††† Cases Controls OR (95%CI) ††† P-value for interaction

2.0–32.0 17 84 Reference 15 61 Ref. 6 17 Ref.
32.1–64.7 16 68 1.58 (0.67 – 3.76) 22 68 1.11 (0.48 – 2.56) 8 22 0.44 (0.10 – 1.87)
≥64.7 23 57 2.12 (0.92 – 4.92) 28 72 1.69 (0.8 – 3.59) 8 10 1.49 (0.35 – 6.43) 0.96

Alcohol

Categories 0 servings / week 1–6 servings / week ≥ 7 servings / week

Concentration (pg/ml) Cases Controls OR (95%CI) †††† Cases Controls OR (95%CI) †††† Cases Controls OR (95%CI) †††† P-value for interaction

2.0–32.0 17 57 Reference 14 65 Ref. 7 45 Reference
32.1–64.7 24 63 1.62 (0.74 – 3.57) 9 64 0.74 (0.29 – 1.89) 6 23 1.15 (0.27 – 4.78)
≥64.7 29 67 1.83 (0.85 – 3.95) 26 52 1.88 (0.83 – 4.25) 7 23 1.74 (0.45 – 6.69) 0.82

Diabetes

Categories Yes No

Concentration (pg/ml) Cases Controls OR (95%CI) ††††† Cases Controls OR(95%CI) †††††† P-value for interaction

2.0–32.0 6 9 Reference 31 153 Reference
32.1–64.7 16 8 8.608 (1.57 – 47.24) 28 150 1.03 (0.06 – 1.71)
≥64.7 25 20 5.22 (1.08 – 25.15) 37 119 1.88 (1.14 – 3.10 ) 0.03

Adjusted for age (modeled as a continuous variable), smoking status (never, former and current), alcohol consumption (no consumption, 1–6 servings per week and 7 or more servings per week) and diabetes (yes vs no).

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Adjusted for sex, smoking status (never, former and current), alcohol consumption (no consumption, 1–6 servings per week and 7 or more servings per week) and diabetes (yes vs no).

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Adjusted for sex, age (modeled as a continuous variable), alcohol consumption (no consumption, 1–6 servings per week and 7 or more servings per week) and diabetes (yes vs no).

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Adjusted for sex, age (modeled as a continuous variable), smoking status (never, former and current), and diabetes (yes vs no).

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Adjusted for sex, age (modeled as a continuous variable), smoking status (never, former and current), and alcohol consumption (no consumption, 1–6 servings per week and 7 or more servings per week).