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. 2021 Jul 21;18(14):7713. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18147713

Table 3.

Prevalence of and multivariable associations with “strongly agreeing” that nicotine directly contributes to each health effect.

Birth Defects CVD Cancer Depression COPD
% aPR (95% CI) % aPR (95% CI) % aPR (95% CI) % aPR (95% CI) % aPR (95% CI)
Question
Version
 Original 46.7% Ref. 87.0% Ref. 85.0% Ref. 23.0% Ref. 85.2% Ref.
 Modified 39.0% 0.84 (0.72, 0.98) 78.2% 0.89 (0.84, 0.95) 69.6% 0.81 (0.75, 0.87) 20.5% 0.90 (0.69, 1.16) 67.3% 0.78 (0.72, 0.84)
Sex
 Male 39.9% Ref. 79.5% Ref. 73.9% Ref. 21.8% Ref. 72.5% Ref.
 Female 43.9% 1.19 (1.01, 1.39) 84.8% 1.04 (0.98, 1.10) 79.8% 1.08 (1.01, 1.15) 20.4% 0.91 (0.69, 1.19) 78.7% 1.06 (0.99, 1.14)
Age
 Per 5 Years --- 0.97 (0.94, 1.01) --- 1.00 (0.99, 1.02) --- 1.00 (0.99, 1.02) --- 0.96 (0.90, 1.03) --- 1.01 (0.99, 1.02)
Specialty
 Family
Medicine
51.0% 1.74 (1.41, 2.13) 89.2% Ref. 82.2% Ref. 22.2% Ref. 81.1% Ref.
 Internal
Medicine
48.4% 1.69 (1.35, 2.11) 75.6% 0.84 (0.78, 0.92) 71.2% 0.86 (0.78, 0.94) 22.8% 1.05 (0.76, 1.46) 68.9% 0.85 (0.77, 0.94)
 OB/GYN 29.9% Ref. 81.1% 0.92 (0.87, 0.98) 76.8% 0.94 (0.88, 1.01) 20.4% 0.94 (0.69, 1.29) 76.9% 0.95 (0.89, 1.02)

aPR, Prevalence Ratio (adjusted for all variables in table); CI, Confidence Interval.