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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol. 2021 Jul 19;74:101978. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2021.101978

Appendix C.

Associations of baseline characteristics with cancer mortality among American Indian adults without a previous history of cancer - the Strong Heart Study, 1989–2010 (n = 3309)

Characteristic	HR^*	95% CI

AZ vs. N/SD	0.72	0.49	1.17
OK vs. N/SD	0.75	0.57	0.97
Age (years)	1.08	1.07	1.10
Current smoking vs. Never	2.95	2.01	4.08
Former smoking vs. Never	1.94	1.41	2.53
Obese (BMI>=30 kg/m²) vs. other	0.67	0.45	0.92
Waist circumference (cm)⁽¹⁾	1.06 ⁽¹⁾	1.00	1.14
Total cholesterol (mg/dl)⁽¹⁾	0.95	0.91	0.98
Albuminuria	1.43	1.14	2.06
Urinary cadmium (mcg/g of creatinine)	1.03	1.00	1.05

AZ, Arizona center; BMI, Body Mass Index; CI, Confidence Interval; HR, Hazards Ratio; N/SD, North and South Dakota center; OK, Oklahoma center; SE, standard error; SHS, Strong Heart Study.

Estimated from a Cox Proportional Hazards model in which characteristics were selected among center, age, sex, education, smoking status, alcohol use, BMI, waist circumference, total cholesterol, triglyceride, albuminuria, urinary cadmium, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension, by backward selection method with 0.05 stay significance level.

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Hazards ratio for waist was given per 5-unit change and for total cholesterol per 10-unit changes.