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Table 2 Association of famine exposure during early life with risk of adulthood anemia in Chinese (n=2007)

From: Exposure to the Chinese famine in early life and the risk of anaemia in adulthood

 

Exposed cohorts

Nonexposed cohort

Late childhood

Mid childhood

Early childhood

Fetal-exposed

 

Anemia as outcome

     

Both genders

     

 Prevalence

29.7

28.2

28.1

33.8

26.0

 RR (95% CI) : model 1

1.15(0.93-1.41)

1.07(0.86-1.33)

1.09(0.88-1.35)

1.26(1.01-1.59)

1.00

 RR (95% CI) : model 2

1.05(0.84-1.30)

1.02(0.81-1.28)

1.04(0.84-1.29)

1.36(1.08-1.70)

1.00

 RR (95% CI) : model 3

1.05(0.84-1.30)

1.03(0.82-1.29)

1.04(0.84-1.30)

1.37(1.09-1.71)

1.00

Men

     

 Prevalence

23.6

21.8

17.9

28.4

16.4

 RR (95% CI) : model 1

1.44(0.97-2.13)

1.33(0.87-2.02)

1.09(0.71-1.68)

1.73(1.13-2.67)

1.00

 RR (95% CI) : model 2

1.13(0.74-1.74)

1.16(0.74-1.83)

1.02(0.65-1.59)

1.80(1.17-2.77)

1.00

 RR (95% CI) : model 3

1.17(0.76-1.79)

1.19(0.76-1.86)

1.02(0.66-1.60)

1.87(1.21-2.87)

1.00

Women

     

 Prevalence

35.1

32.9

37.2

37.4

34.2

 RR (95% CI) : model 1

1.03(0.80-1.31)

0.96(0.75-1.24)

1.09(0.85-1.39)

1.09(0.84-1.43)

1.00

 RR (95% CI) : model 2

0.96(0.75-1.24)

0.94(0.72-1.22)

1.04(0.81-1.34)

1.16(0.88-1.51)

1.00

 RR (95% CI) : model 3

0.98(0.76-1.26)

0.95(0.73-1.24)

1.06(0.82-1.36)

1.17(0.90-1.53)

1.00

  1. Model 1: unadjusted model.
  2. Model 2: RR adjusted for income, education, residence (urban/rural), smoking, alcohol drinking, job (manual vs non manual), hypertension. In gender combined model, gender was also adjusted in the model.
  3. Model 3: additional adjustment for BMI.