Table 4.

Comparison of disease incidence in lifetime between hot spa bathers and non-hot spa bathers by gender.

Men						Lifetime	Women
Non-spa bather	Spa-bather	Pre-adjusted		Adjusted			Non-spa bather	Spa-bather	Pre-adjusted		Adjusted
990	3091	OR	p-value	OR	p-value	Participants	1332	3839	OR	p-value	OR	p-value
155	540	1.140	0.186	1.104	0.284	Cancer	175	524	1.045	0.638	1.020	0.817
103	303	0.936	0.582	0.679	0.000	IHD	71	165	0.798	0.120	0.839	0.172
114	320	0.887	0.302	0.810	0.049	Arrhythmia	108	297	0.950	0.664	1.168	0.160
425	1204	0.848	0.026	0.869	0.053	Hypertension	552	1397	0.808	0.001	0.767	0.000
36	111	0.987	0.947	0.908	0.599	Apoplexy	29	65	0.774	0.255	1.384	0.052
85	259	0.974	0.839	0.937	0.621	Gout	7	29	1.441	0.385	1.795	0.212
36	112	0.996	0.985	0.965	0.856	Asthma	54	145	0.929	0.651	0.783	0.098
181	562	0.993	0.943	0.922	0.386	DM	137	373	0.939	0.548	1.238	0.039
120	274	0.705	0.003	0.651	0.000	Hyperlipidemia	193	488	0.859	0.098	0.879	0.163
46	143	0.995	0.979	0.744	0.057	Renal disease	43	92	0.736	0.101	0.666	0.022
24	40	0.528	0.013	0.353	0.000	Depression	43	80	0.638	0.018	0.916	0.628
25	61	0.777	0.293	0.427	0.000	Chr Hepatitis	23	72	1.088	0.728	0.952	0.849
13	46	1.135	0.688	1.241	0.455	Collagen Dis	39	129	1.153	0.443	1.405	0.053
42	124	0.943	0.749	0.672	0.035	Allergy	98	268	0.945	0.644	0.881	0.299
819	2528	0.938	0.502	0.823	0.016	Total Patients	1046	2868	0.808	0.005	0.769	0.000

P-values with a significant difference between hot spa bathers and non-hot spa bathers are

shown in bold. IHD; ischemic heart disease; DM: diabetes mellitus; Chr Hepatitis: chronic

hepatitis; Collagen Dis: collagen disease.