Table 2.

Cancer occurrence among G2 men and women by G0 food access, restricted to G0s with rural childhoods: hazard ratios (HR)^a and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) (Cox proportional hazard models) for total cancer, using intermediate food access as reference group

	G2 men			G2 women
Food access of	Hazard Ratio	95% CI	p value	Hazard Ratio	95% CI	p value
Paternal grandmother
Good/abundant	1.08	0.54–2.12	0.808	0.97	0.64–1.47	0.875
Poor/very poor	1.33	0.82–2.14	0.243	0.95	0.64–1.43	0.816
Paternal grandfather
Good/abundant	3.05b	1.98–4.69	4.1E-07	1.14	0.82–1.59	0.443
Poor/very poor	0.82	0.49–1.39	0.813	1.22	0.85–1.75	0.281
Person years	124,256			120,559
Cancer events	466			641
Maternal grandmother
Good/abundant	0.89	0.58–1.37	0.596	0.9	0.69–1.38	0.886
Poor/very poor	1.20	0.84–1.70	0.322	0.77	0.50–1.20	0.248
Maternal grandfather
Good/ abundant	1.14	0.74–1.76	0.551	1.23	0.83–1.83	0.305
Poor/ very poor	1.04	0.69–1.57	0.840	0.99	0.65–1.51	0.967
Person years	117 593			117 518
Cancer events	587			661

Bold figures: Estimated HR significantly higher than 1, two-tailed test.

^aControlling for social and demographic factors, plus G0 partner’s and G1 parent food access

^bGender interaction: p = 0.00002