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. 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 5.

Adjusted hazard ratios (HR)* and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for associations between first registration with overweight and esophageal and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma incidence.

Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Gastric Cardia Adenocarcinoma Combined Cases


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



Time First Overweight
 Never 57,767 116 Referent 115 Referent 231 Referent
 Age 7 1782 11 3.41 (1.83, 6.34) 5 1.57 (0.64, 3.85) 16 2.49 (1.50, 4.14)
 Age 13 2150 8 1.90 (0.93, 3.89) 6 1.43 (0.63, 3.25) 14 1.66 (0.97, 2.86)
 Early adulthood 2996 11 1.95 (1.04, 3.62) 14 1.25 (0.73, 2.16)
*

Adjusted for education level and age at conscription.

**

Cells with less than 5 cases are not presented.