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. 2019 Dec 17;157(4):1021–1029. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2019.11.033

Table 2.

Cox Models of Lung Cancer Diagnosis According to ADI

Variable Unadjusted Hazard Ratio (95% CI) Adjusted Hazard Ratio (95% CI)
Area deprivationa
 Lowest 1%-50% (median ADI, 85.9; n = 11,162) Reference Reference
 51%-75% (median ADI, 105.1; n = 9,996) 1.19 (0.99-1.43) 1.11 (0.92-1.33)
 76%-90% (median ADI: 124.3, n = 10,388) 1.32 (1.11-1.56) 1.23 (1.02-1.47)
 Highest 91%-100% (median ADI, 141.4; N = 10,069) 1.37 (1.16-1.62) 1.29 (1.07-1.55)
Smoking status
 Former Reference
 Current 1.44 (1.24-1.68)
Smoking intensity, packs per dayb 2.02 (1.67-2.45)
Smoking duration, per 10-year increase 1.22 (1.16-1.29)
Quit time, per 1-year increase 0.98 (0.97-0.99)
Age, per 10-year increase 1.40 (1.26-1.54)
BMI, per 5 kg/m2 increase 0.85 (0.81-0.89)
Sex
 Female Reference
 Male 1.01 (0.89-1.14)
Race/ethnicity
 White Reference
 Black 1.02 (0.89-1.18)
 Hispanicc 0.53 (0.37-0.77)
 Other 0.46 (0.30-0.70)
Insurance
 Commercial Reference
 Medicaid 0.95 (0.78-1.17)
 Medicare 1.16 (0.97-1.40)
 Self-pay 1.13 (0.94-1.35)
Family history of lung cancerd 1.23 (1.00-1.52)
Diagnosis of COPDe 1.97 (1.73-2.24)
Personal history of cancere 1.43 (1.26-1.62)

See Table 1 legend for expansion of abbreviation.

a

ADI was categorized into percentiles of census block group disadvantage: the lowest group is the most affluent 50% of census blocks, and the highest group is the most disadvantaged 10% of census blocks.

b

Smoking intensity was transformed to its square root.

c

Hispanic ethnicity was combined with race as one variable due to the negligibly small number of individuals who identify as non-white Hispanic.

d

Family history of lung cancer was modeled on an ordinal scale: 0, 1, and ≥ 2.

e

Diagnosis of COPD (yes vs no) and personal history of cancer (yes vs no).