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. 2018 Apr;53:99–104. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2018.01.002

Table 3.

Risk of colorectal cancer expressed as the standardized incidence ratio (SIR) with 95% confidence interval (lower confidence limit (LCL), upper confidence limit (UCL)) in the obesity surgery (OS) and the obese no OS groups.

Variable OS
Obese No OS
n SIR LCL UCL n SIR LCL UCL
Total 43 1.26 0.92 1.71 3237 1.12 1.08 1.16
Gender
 Male 16 1.41 0.81 2.29 1850 1.21 1.15 1.26
 Female 27 1.19 0.79 1.74 1387 1.02 0.97 1.08
Age groups at entry into the cohorts, years
 18–39 2 0.79 0.10 2.85 54 1.35 1.02 1.77
 40–49 7 0.83 0.34 1.72 174 1.19 1.02 1.38
 ≥50 34 1.47 1.02 2.06 3009 1.11 1.07 1.15
Calendar year
 1997–2005 5 2.17 0.70 5.07 497 0.94 0.86 1.02
 2006–2013 38 1.20 0.85 1.65 2740 1.16 1.12 1.21
Follow-up time, years
 1–2 26 1.24 0.81 1.81 1706 1.14 1.09 1.20
 ≥2 17 1.32 0.77 2.11 1531 1.10 1.04 1.15
Surgery type
 Restrictive surgery 29 1.41 0.94 2.02
 Restrictive and malabsorptive surgery 14 1.05 0.57 1.76