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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2018 Mar 23;164:459–466. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.03.016

Table 2.

Odds ratios of leukemia by calculated fields and proximity to power lines, stratified by mobility of cases.

Total
AOR (95% CI)
Cases Who Did Not Move
AOR (95% CI)
Cases Who Moved
AOR (95% CI)
Cases Who Moved < 2 km
AOR (95% CI)
Cases Who Moved ≥ 2 km
AOR (95% CI)
Calculated fields < 0.1 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference)
0.1–0.4 0.90 (0.57–1.41) 0.58 (0.29–1.18) 1.09 (0.66–1.78) 1.24 (0.55–2.80) 1.03 (0.54–2.00)
> =0.4 1.49 (0.69–3.19) 1.71 (0.65–4.52) 1.50 (0.63–3.58) N < 5 1.64 (0.63–4.26)
Distance to 200 + kV Power Line 600 + 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference)
500- < 600 1.18 (0.82–1.71) 1.34 (0.83–2.16) 1.08 (0.70–1.65) 0.94 (0.42–2.10) 1.12 (0.71–1.76)
400- < 500 0.87 (0.60–1.28) 0.74 (0.43–1.29) 0.95 (0.62–1.46) 0.78 (0.35–1.74) 1.01 (0.64–1.60)
300- < 400 1.11 (0.78–1.59) 1.17 (0.73–1.87) 1.07 (0.71–1.61) 1.28 (0.66–2.47) 1.03 (0.66–1.61)
200- < 300 0.85 (0.59–1.22) 0.96 (0.59–1.55) 0.78 (0.51–1.21) N < 5 0.89 (0.56–1.39)
100- < 200 0.77 (0.53–1.11) 0.72 (0.42–1.23) 0.79 (0.52–1.21) 1.17 (0.61–2.25) 0.68 (0.41–1.11)
50- < 100 0.96 (0.56–1.64) 0.42 (0.16–1.10) 1.31 (0.74–2.33) N < 5 1.42 (0.78–2.61)
< 50 1.38 (0.71–2.67) 1.62 (0.72–3.65) 1.28 (0.60–2.75) N < 5 1.54 (0.70–3.36)

All controls were used in each stratum to increase stability of estimates and avoid small cell counts. Analyses were adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and composite SES.