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. 2021 Jan 30;42(9):3851–3856. doi: 10.1007/s10072-021-05085-6

Table 2.

Incidence of Huntington’s disease in first-generation male and female immigrants vs Swedish-born men and women, respectively, expressed as hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI)

Model 1 Model 2
Cases HR 95% CI HR 95% CI
Men
Born in Sweden 414 1 1
Born in other countries 64 0.87 0.66 1.13 0.90 0.68 1.19
Finland 10 0.61 0.33 1.14 0.63 0.34 1.19
Other European countries and North America 30 0.87 0.60 1.26 0.91 0.62 1.33
Other regions (Asia, Africa, and Latin America) 24 1.04 0.69 1.58 1.10 0.71 1.70
Women
Born in Sweden 508 1 1
Born in other countries 48 0.55 0.41 0.73 0.49 0.36 0.67
Finland 6 0.25 0.11 0.55 0.22 0.10 0.49
Other European countries and North America 29 0.78 0.53 1.13 0.72 0.49 1.05
Other regions (Asia, Africa and Latin America) 13 0.50 0.29 0.87 0.44 0.25 0.78

Model 1: adjusted for birth year, gender, and region of residence in Sweden; Model 2: adjusted for birth year, gender, region of residence in Sweden, educational level, marital status, and neighborhood deprivation

Bold values are statistically significant