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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 22.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Res. 2021 Jan 29;81(6):1616–1622. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-20-2256

Table 3.

Associations (HR (95% CI)) a between LAN and incidence of pancreatic cancer by BMI in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.

BMI, kg/m2 No. of cases/Total N LAN in 1996 p-trend Per quintile increase
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5
 <25 825/160,589 ref 0.99 (0.76, 1.29) 1.13 (0.85, 1.50) 1.12 (0.83, 1.51) 1.30 (0.94, 1.80) 0.08 1.07 (0.99, 1.15)
 25–<30 1,072/193,327 ref 0.95 (0.76, 1.19) 1.07 (0.84, 1.37) 1.19 (0.92, 1.54) 1.31 (0.98, 1.74) 0.02 1.09 (1.02, 1.16)
 30+ 605/110,455 ref 0.91 (0.68, 1.23) 1.17 (0.85, 1.61) 1.04 (0.74, 1.47) 1.04 (0.71, 1.52) 0.65 1.02 (0.94, 1.11)
a

adjusted for state of residence (California, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan), sex (men, women), race (white, black, other), education (less than high school, high school graduate, some college, college and post graduate), smoking (former smoker and quit 10+ years, former smoker and quit 1–9 years, current smoker or quit<1 year, never smoked), alcohol (non-drinker, <1 drink/day, 1–<3 drinks/day, ≥3 drink/day), red meat intake (continuous), rural-urban continuum code (1, 2, 3, 4, 5+), and 2000 census tract poverty rate (continuous), median home value (continuous), and population density (quintile).

P-interaction=0.03