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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2019 Dec 19;147(3):785–792. doi: 10.1002/ijc.32801

Table 3:

Sensitivity analysis of cancer risk comparing patients with type 2 diabetes who are metformin users or non-users with those without diabetes, within the DM1 and DM1-free cohorts, requiring a minimum of two metformin prescriptions to be considered a user

Analysis* DM1 Cohort DM1-free Cohort
(n=913) (n=12,318)
HR (95% CI) p-value HR (95% CI) p-value
No Diabetes Reference Reference
T2D (metformin non-users) 3.49 (1.15 to 10.6) 0.03 1.16 (0.74 to 1.81) 0.51
T2D (metformin users) 0.44 (0.06 to 3.40) 0.43 1.26 (0.90 to 1.78) 0.18
*

Adjusted for sex, baseline BMI (continuous), linkage status (time-dependent starting April 1997), and number of healthcare encounters (in CPRD and/or HES prior to outcome/end of follow-up date, with a 1-year time lag)