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

Table 3.

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

Model 1 Model 2
Cases HR 95% CI HR 95% CI
Men
Parents born in Sweden 429 1 1
Parents born in other countries 59 1.01 0.77 1.34 1.00 0.75 1.32
Finland 20 0.94 0.60 1.47 0.91 0.58 1.43
Other European countries and North America 25 0.80 0.53 1.20 0.80 0.53 1.20
Other regions (Asia, Africa and Latin America) 14 2.77 1.61 4.77 2.69 1.56 4.66
Women
Parents born in Sweden 473 1 1
Parents born in other countries 40 0.62 0.45 0.86 0.63 0.45 0.87
Finland 11 0.46 0.25 0.83 0.45 0.25 0.83
Other European countries and North America 23 0.66 0.44 1.01 0.68 0.44 1.03
Other regions (Asia, Africa and Latin America) 6 1.07 0.48 2.42 1.10 0.49 2.49

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