. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2019 Aug 5;27(9):1520–1526. doi: 10.1002/oby.22570

Table 4.

Adjusted hazard ratios (HR)^* and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for associations between weight patterns and combined esophageal and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma incidence.

		Combined Cases
	Total (n)	Cases (n)^**	HR (95% CI)

Weight Pattern
Never overweight	54289	218	Referent
Overweight at age 7 only	531	–	–
Overweight at age 13 only	1008	8	1.97 (0.97, 3.99)
Overweight in early adulthood only	2996	14	1.25 (0.73, 2.15)
Overweight at age 7 and 13	370	–	–
Overweight at age 7 and early adulthood	176	–	–
Overweight at age 13 and early adulthood	1142	6	1.38 (0.61, 3.11)
Persistently overweight	705	8	3.18 (1.57, 6.44)

Adjusted for education level and age at conscription.

^**

Cells with less than 5 cases are not presented.