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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 May 27;33(11):1925–1931. doi: 10.1111/jgh.14264

Table 2.

Cohort-specific Hazard Ratios (95%) for Risk of All-cause and Major Cause-specific Death in Relation to A History of Gallstone Disease or Cholecystectomy

Gallstone disease Cholecystectomy

No Yes No Yes
NHS (1980–2012)
All-cause death
Cases/person years
Rate (/100k PY)
16532/2183692
739
5015/372383
1347
16964/2221151
764
4583/334923
1368
Model 1 HR (95% CI), Age-adjusted 1 1.27 (1.23, 1.31) 1 1.26 (1.22, 1.30)
Model 2 HR (95% CI), Multivariate 1 1.20 (1.16, 1.24) 1 1.18 (1.14, 1.22)
CVD-specific death
Cases/person years
Rate (/100k PY)
3424/2196011
156
1178/376025
313
3532/2233777
158
1070/338258
316
Model 1 HR (95% CI), Age-adjusted 1 1.41 (1.32, 1.50) 1 1.38 (1.29, 1.48)
Model 2 HR (95% CI), Multivariate 1 1.15 (1.07, 1.23) 1 1.12 (1.05, 1.21)
Cancer-specific death
Cases/person years
Rate (/100k PY)
6475/2193105
295
1655/375546
441
6636/2230811
297
1494/337840
442
Model 1 HR (95% CI), Age-adjusted 1 1.14 (1.08, 1.21) 1 1.12 (1.06, 1.19)
Model 2 HR (95% CI), Multivariate 1 1.15 (1.09, 1.21) 1 1.12 (1.06, 1.19)
Other death
Cases/person years
Rate (/100k PY)
6633/2193161
302
2182/375113
582
6796/2230868
305
2019/337406
598
Model 1 HR (95% CI), Age-adjusted 1 1.31 (1.25, 1.38) 1 1.30 (1.24, 1.37)
Model 2 HR (95% CI), Multivariate 1 1.24 (1.18, 1.31) 1 1.24 (1.17, 1.30)

HPFS (1986–2012)
All-cause death
Cases/person years
Rate (/100k PY)
12449/946350
1315
1996/68425
2917
13004/963814
1349
1441/50961
2828
Model 1 HR (95% CI), Age-adjusted 1 1.18 (1.12, 1.23) 1 1.15 (1.08, 1.21)
Model 2 HR (95% CI), Multivariate 1 1.09 (1.04, 1.15) 1 1.07 (1.01, 1.13)
CVD-specific death
Cases/person years
Rate (/100k PY)
3715/954833
389
641/69754
919
3908/972655
402
448/51932
863
Model 1 HR (95% CI), Age-adjusted 1 1.18 (1.08, 1.29) 1 1.12 (1.01, 1.24)
Model 2 HR (95% CI), Multivariate 1 1.05 (0.96, 1.15) 1 1.01 (0.91, 1.12)
Cancer-specific death
Cases/person years
Rate (/100k PY)
3960/954596
415
568/69819
814
4088/972492
420
440/51924
847
Model 1 HR (95% CI), Age-adjusted 1 1.20 (1.10, 1.31) 1 1.27 (1.15, 1.41)
Model 2 HR (95% CI), Multivariate 1 1.15 (1.05, 1.25) 1 1.21 (1.09, 1.34)
Other death
Cases/person years
Rate (/100k PY)
4774/953836
501
787/69604
1131
5008/971616
515
553/51824
1067
Model 1 HR (95% CI), Age-adjusted 1 1.15 (1.06, 1.24) 1 1.08 (0.98, 1.18)
Model 2 HR (95% CI), Multivariate 1 1.08 (0.99, 1.17) 1 1.01 (0.92, 1.11)

Abbreviations: CI, Confidence Interval; HR, Hazard Ratios; PY, Person Years

Model1, adjusted for age;

Model2 adjusted for age (months), body mass index (kg/m2), white race (yes/no), marital status (yes/no), smoking status (never, past, current smoker), smoking amount and duration (0, 0–9, 10–24, 25–44, ≥45 pack years), alcohol drinking status (women: 0, 0.1–4.9, 5.0–9.9, 10.0–14.9, ≥15.0 g/d; men: 0, 0.1−4.9, 5.0−9.9, 10.0−14.9, 15.0−29.9, or ≥30.0 g/d), physical activity (in quintile), family history of myocardial infarction (yes/no), diabetes (yes/no), and cancer (yes/no); post-menopausal hormone replacement (premenopausal, postmenopausal and HT nonuser, postmenopausal and current HT user, postmenopausal and past HT user, missing; NHS only), modified Alternative Health Eating Index Score (alcohol excluded; in quintiles), dietary cholesterol intake (in quintiles), daily energy intake (in quintiles); status of hypertension (yes/no), diabetes (yes/no), hypercholesterolemia (yes/no); regular aspirin use (yes/no).