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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Pollut. 2018 Feb 21;235:948–955. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.01.008

Table 2.

Odds ratio (95% confidence interval) for type 2 diabetes by total urine arsenic concentrations (N=1,451)

Model 1a Model 2b Model 3c

Total Urine Arsenic,
μg/g
Cases /
Non cases
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI OR 95% CI

Tertile 1 (0 – 33.77) 25 / 437 1 Ref. 1 Ref. 1 Ref.
Tertile 2 (33.77 – 123.90) 41 / 432 1.85 1.04, 3.28 1.85 1.04, 3.30 2.03 1.63, 2.53
Tertile 3 (> 123.90) 54 / 462 1.75 1.01, 3.03 1.76 1.01, 3.09 2.14 1.47, 3.11
p80th vs. p20th 120 / 1331 1.30 0.94, 1.80 1.31 0.94, 1.81 1.76 1.54, 2.02

Abbreviations: OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.

p80th and p20th are 229.93 and 19.25 μg/g of creatinine, respectively.

a

Model 1: Adjusted for age (years), gender (male, female) and education (<secondary education, >= secondary education).

b

Model 2: Model 1 further adjusted for urine cotinine levels (<34, 34–500 and >500 ng/mL), smoking status (non-smoker, former and current), alcohol consumption (mg/day), fish consumption (g/month), and residence place (rural, urban).

c

Model 3: Model 2 further adjusted for log-transformed urine arsenobetaine levels (μg/g).