Table 4.

Co-relative analyses for association between ESR, schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses

	HR [95% CI]* for schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses
	Schizophrenia				Other non-affective psychoses
	No.	ESR 4–6 mm/h	ESR 7–10 mm/h	ESR ⩾11 mm/h	No.	ESR 4–6 mm/h	ESR 7–10 mm/h	ESR ⩾11 mm/h
General population	633 080	1.04 [0.97, 1.12]	1.11 [0.99, 1.25]	1.05 [0.90, 1.22]	632 815	0.98 [0.91, 1.06]	0.83 [0.73, 0.95]	0.92 [0.78, 1.08]
Cousins	61 091	0.78 [0.61, 0.99]	0.87 [0.57, 1.34]	1.14 [0.67, 1.95]	61 153	0.97 [0.77, 1.22]	0.71 [0.47, 1.08]	0.80 [0.49, 1.31]
Half-siblings	21 264	1.08 [0.76, 1.52]	1.50 [0.86, 2.61]	1.11 [0.53, 2.34]	21 239	1.05 [0.73, 1.52]	1.02 [0.58, 1.80]	1.01 [0.38, 2.70]
Full-siblings	109 166	0.91 [0.76, 1.08]	1.39 [1.04, 1.85]	0.84 [0.59, 1.21]	109 115	0.82 [0.68, 0.99]	0.70 [0.51, 0.95]	1.14 [0.76, 1.71]

^*The group with ESR 0–3 mm/h has been used as the reference category for all analyses