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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 25.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2017 Oct 16;142(3):470–476. doi: 10.1002/ijc.31066

Table 2.

Association between UBC and asthma status, Spain, 1998–2001

Total N Cases,
N (%)
Controls
N (%)
OR* 95% CI* P* OR $ 95% CI$ P$
Asthma
No 1814 885 (94.6%) 929 (90.9%) 1 1
Yes 144 51 (5. 5%) 93 (9.1%) 0.56 0.39, 0.80 0.001 0.54 0.37, 0.79 0.001
Asthma and /or COPD
None 1647 797 (85.1%) 850 (83.2%) 1 1
Only asthma 64 20 (2.14%) 44 (4.31%) 0.48 0.28, 0.83 0.008 0.50 0.28, 0.88 0.02
Only COPD 167 88 (9.40%) 79 (7.73%) 1.19 0.86, 1.63 0.40 1.07 0.76,1.50 0.69
Asthma & COPD 80 31 (3.31%) 49 (4.79%) 0.67 0.43,1.07 0.06 0.59 0.36,0.96 0.03

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; OR, odds ratio; RRR, relative risk ratio; UBC, urothelial bladder cancer.

*

Estimates adjusted by age, gender and region.

$

Estimates adjusted by age, gender, region, smoking status, BMI, fruit consumption (in tertitles), coffee consumption (daily cups of coffee), use of medication/ phenazopyridine to treat UTI