Table 4.

Association between types of stroke and urinary cadmium concentration (creatinine standardized).

U-Cd	Cases n	Urinary Cd Median	Adjusted HR (95% CI)^a	Urinary Cd Median	Cases n	Adjusted HR (95% CI) ^a
			Ischemic stroke		Hemorrhagic stroke
Continuous^*	445		1.02 (0.92-1.14)	0.290	89	1.04 (0.86-1.26)
Quartile 1	101	0.098	Ref	0.094	17	Ref
Quartile 2	104	0.166	0.95 (0.69-1.33)	0.167	28	1.55 (0.82-2.91)
Quartile 3	116	0.250	1.12 (0.80-1.56)	0.256	20	1.07 (0.54-2.13)
Quartile 4	123	0.436	1.12 (0.78-1.62)	0.454	24	1.09 (0.53-2.24)

Per IQR (0.19, calculated among all 1200 subcohort members)

Fully adjusted model with age as time axis and adjusted for gender, BMI (continuous), education (categorical), and cotinine (continuous).