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

Table 4.

Prevalence of and multivariable associations with “agreeing” or “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 75.3% Ref. 93.9% Ref. 90.5% Ref. 66.2% Ref. 89.1% Ref.
 Modified 71.0% 0.94 (0.88, 1.01) 90.1% 0.95 (0.92, 0.99) 82.3% 0.89 (0.85, 0.94) 65.4% 1.00 (0.91, 1.10) 77.5% 0.86 (0.81, 0.91)
Sex
 Male 71.1% Ref. 88.9% Ref. 82.8% Ref. 61.6% Ref. 79.7% Ref.
 Female 74.0% 1.07 (1.00, 1.16) 94.6% 1.04 (1.00, 1.08) 88.9% 1.04 (0.99, 1.09) 68.7% 1.08 (0.98, 1.19) 85.8% 1.05 (0.99, 1.11)
Age
 Per 5 Years --- 0.99 (0.97, 1.01) --- 1.00 (0.99, 1.01) --- 1.00 (0.98, 1.01) --- 0.96 (0.93, 0.98) --- 1.00 (0.99, 1.02)
Specialty
 Family
Medicine
84.0% 1.48 (1.33, 1.65) 94.5% Ref. 90.1% Ref. 72.2% Ref. 86.6% Ref.
 Internal
Medicine
78.2% 1.40 (1.24, 1.59) 85.4% 0.92 (0.86, 0.98) 79.5% 0.88 (0.81, 0.95) 61.2% 0.88 (0.78, 1.00) 76.8% 0.89 (0.82, 0.97)
 OB/GYN 57.9% Ref. 94.5% 1.01 (0.98, 1.04) 87.8% 0.97 (0.93, 1.02) 62.7% 0.87 (0.78, 0.97) 84.9% 0.99 (0.93, 1.04)

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