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Table 3 Age-group specific analysis: Hazard Ratio (HR) and 95% Confidence Intervals (CI) for risk of all cause, cancer-specific, and circulatory disease death

From: Ability of a biomarker-based score to predict death from circulatory disease and cancer in NHANES III

 

Age-group <65 (N=9873)

Age-group 65+ (N=3183)

  All cause

  Cancer

  Circulatory

  All cause

  Cancer

  Circulatory

  N=875

  N=257

  N=294

  N=2,206

  N=396

  N=1094

HR

95%CI

HR

95%CI

HR

95%CI

HR

95%CI

HR

95%CI

HR

95%CI

Score=0

1.00

Ref

1.00

Ref

1.00

Ref

1.00

Ref

1.00

Ref

1.00

Ref

Score=1

1.21

0.96, 1.53

1.12

0.78, 1.61

1.51

0.93, 2.45

1.21

1.05, 1.40

1.13

0.87, 1.45

1.21

0.99, 1.47

Score=2

2.02

1.57, 2.61

1.37

0.74, 2.51

2.75

1.69, 4.49

1.88

1.65, 2.15

1.26

0.94, 1.70

2.00

1.68, 2.38

Score=3

3.34

2.11, 5.29

0.87

0.37, 2.05

4.15

1.61, 10.70

3.47

2.69, 4.47

3.81

2.38, 6.11

2.79

1.50, 5.18

Score=4

7.31

2.42, 22.01

  

4.24

0.94, 19.14

8.27

5.68, 12.05

8.47

5.58, 12.87

9.99

5.52, 18.08

P for trend

<0.001

0.362

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

<0.001

  1. All models were adjusted for age, gender, poverty to income ratio, race ethnicity group, smoking behavior, alcohol consumption, vigorous physical activity, BMI, and Charlson Comorbidity Index.