Table 3.
Odds Ratios and 95% Confidence Intervals for association between element concentrations and obese status
| Premenopausal women |
Postmenopausal women |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Element concentrations | Non-obese | Obese | OR | (95% CI) | Element concentrations | Non-obese |
Obese |
OR | (95% CI) |
| Arsenica | (N = 34) | (N = 42) | Arsenicb | (N = 97) | (N = 83) | ||||
| ≤ 0.014 (μg/L) | 11 | 15 | 1.00 | (ref.) | ≤ 0.015 (μg/L) | 42 | 18 | 1.00 | (ref.) |
| > 0.014—≤ 0.024 (μg/L) | 12 | 15 | 0.72 | (0.22–2.29) | > 0.015—≤ 0.023 (μg/L) | 31 | 29 | 2.74 | (1.20–6.27) |
| > 0.024 (μg/L) | 11 | 12 | 0.63 | (0.18–2.15) | > 0.023 (μg/L) | 24 | 36 | 4.43 | (1.91–10.28) |
| Trend | 0.44 | Trend | < 0.01 | ||||||
| Arsenic (continuous)b | 19.01 | (3.39–106.48) | |||||||
| Cadmiuma | (N = 34) | (N = 42) | Cadmiumb | (N = 97) | (N = 83) | ||||
| ≤ 0.009 (μg/L) | 11 | 15 | 1.00 | (ref.) | ≤ 0.008 (μg/L) | 39 | 20 | 1.00 | (ref.) |
| > 0.009—≤ 0.021 (μg/L) | 11 | 15 | 0.98 | (0.31–3.13) | > 0.008—≤ 0.019 (μg/L) | 32 | 27 | 1.57 | (0.70–3.48) |
| > 0.021 (μg/L) | 12 | 12 | 0.70 | (0.21–2.34) | > 0.019 (μg/L) | 26 | 36 | 2.72 | (1.23–5.99) |
| Trend | 0.56 | Trend | 0.01 | ||||||
| Cadmium (continuous)b | 2.64 | (1.33–5.21) | |||||||
a
Adjusted for: age, ethnicity, and parity/breastfeeding
b
Adjusted for: age, ethnicity, alcohol use, parity/Breastfeeding, and age at first menstrual cycle