Table 3. Cancer related factors associated with past-year heavy and light/moderate alcohol intake among current drinkers.
| Characteristic | Light/moderate vs. infrequent | Heavy vs. infrequent | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude OR (95% CI)† | P value | Adjusted OR (95% CI)† | P value | Crude OR (95% CI)† | P value | Adjusted OR (95% CI)† | P value | ||
| Cancer | |||||||||
| No | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Yes | 0.75 (0.71–0.80) | <0.001 | 0.88 (0.82–0.94) | <0.001 | 0.86 (0.76–0.98) | 0.024 | 0.89 (0.78–1.02) | 0.089 | |
| Alcohol-related cancer‡ | |||||||||
| No | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Yes | 0.73 (0.63–0.84) | <0.001 | 1.03 (0.88–1.20) | 0.731 | 0.92 (0.70–1.20) | 0.537 | 1.22 (0.94–1.59) | 0.132 | |
| Length of cancer history, year | |||||||||
| 2–4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 5–9 | 1.12 (0.93–1.35) | 0.235 | 1.20 (0.97–1.47) | 0.088 | 0.85 (0.57–1.28) | 0.440 | 0.89 (0.60–1.32) | 0.553 | |
| 10+ | 1.09 (0.92–1.28) | 0.330 | 1.20 (1.01–1.44) | 0.041 | 0.97 (0.66–1.43) | 0.888 | 0.99 (0.70–1.40) | 0.951 | |
†, OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; adjusted OR adjusted for age, gender, race, education, marital status, and smoking. ‡, Alcohol related cancer types included breast, colon, rectum, mouth/tongue/lip, larynx-windpipe, esophagus, and liver cancers.