Table 2 Crude and Adjusted Odds Ratios for Any Birth Defect – Role of Service, Rank, Military Status
From: Reproductive health and pregnancy outcomes among French gulf war veterans
Cases (n = 131) | Controls (n = 262) | Univariate analysis | Adjusted analysis * | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | OR | 95% CI | P | OR | 95% CI | p | |
Age in 1990 | 1.02 | 0.83–1.25 | 0.84 | 1.02 | 0.83–1.27 | 0.81 | ||||
Service | 0.06 | 0.08 | ||||||||
Navy | 13 | 9.9 | 24 | 9.2 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
Army | 69 | 52.7 | 169 | 64.5 | 0.75 | 0.35–1.62 | 0.74 | 0.33–1.61 | ||
Air Force | 43 | 32.8 | 58 | 22.1 | 1.69 | 0.70–4.07 | 1.72 | 0.71–4.17 | ||
Other branch | 6 | 4.6 | 11 | 4.2 | 1.23 | 0.31–4.91 | 1.16 | 0.28–4.77 | ||
Rank | 0.60 | 0.60 | ||||||||
Officers | 15 | 11.5 | 24 | 9.2 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
Non-commissioned officers | 58 | 44.3 | 114 | 43.5 | 0.77 | 0.36–1.65 | 0.69 | 0.31–1.56 | ||
Servicemen | 58 | 44.3 | 124 | 47.3 | 0.64 | 0.27–1.54 | 0.86 | 0.33–2.21 | ||
Military status | ||||||||||
Active | 99 | 75.6 | 191 | 72.9 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
Retired | 32 | 24.4 | 71 | 27.1 | 0.87 | 0.53–1.41 | 0.57 | 0.82 | 0.49–1.36 | 0.44 |