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Table 5 Dietary risk factors – food habits: meat, innards and dairy products (> 1980)

From: A case-control study of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Switzerland: analysis of potential risk factors with regard to an increased CJD incidence in the years 2001–2004

    

comparison with all control subjects

Risk factor

n

total

mean (SD) or %

crude estimate

age and sex adjusted estimate

age, sex and education adjusted estimate

  

cases n = 69

controls n = 224

OR (95% CI)

p

OR (95% CI)

p

OR (95% CI)

p

vegetarian for > 1 year

290

3.0

5.4

0.55 (0.12–2.53)

0.445

0.62 (0.13–2.93)

0.550

0.81 (0.17–3.95)

0.798

cow's milk (regularly/daily)

288

87.7

87.9

0.98 (0.43–2.28)

0.965

0.98 (0.42–2.30)

0.962

1.00 (0.42–2.39)

0.997

cheese (> 1/week)

288

95.4

96.0

0.87 (0.23–3.31)

0.837

0.84 (0.22–3.22)

0.800

0.68 (0.17–2.71)

0.588

beef (> 1/week)

287

50.8

54.5

0.86 (0.49–1.50)

0.595

0.84 (0.48–1.47)

0.549

0.88 (0.50–1.55)

0.650

veal (> 1/week)

286

40.6

30.6

1.55 (0.87–2.75)

0.135

1.51 (0.84–2.69)

0.167

1.55 (0.86–2.80)

0.142

pork (> 1/week)

287

63.1

62.6

1.02 (0.58–1.81)

0.946

0.99 (0.55–1.76)

0.960

0.93 (0.52–1.68)

0.811

lamb, ever

287

81.5

86.0

0.72 (0.34–1.49)

0.373

0.63 (0.29–1.34)

0.229

0.74 (0.34–1.64)

0.463

game/venison, ever

285

87.5

81.5

1.59 (0.71–3.60)

0.262

1.45 (0.63–3.35)

0.384

1.48 (0.64–3.45)

0.362

chicken (> 1/week)

285

63.5

57.7

1.28 (0.73–2.33)

0.407

1.28 (0.71–2.28)

0.411

1.23 (0.68–2.21)

0.495

sausages (> 1/week)

283

54.1

42.8

1.58 (0.89–2.78)

0.118

1.51 (0.85–2.69)

0.161

1.55 (0.86–2.78)

0.147

hamburgers at restaurants, ever

286

37.5

24.8

1.82 (1.01–3.29)

0.047

1.76 (0.95–3.24)

0.070

1.74 (0.93–3.26)

0.086

innards, ever

287

56.9

50.5

1.30 (0.74–2.27)

0.359

1.27 (0.72–2.23)

0.404

1.32 (0.75–2.35)

0.337

liver, ever

287

78.5

73.9

1.29 (0.66–2.50)

0.454

1.28 (0.66–2.49)

0.469

1.23 (0.62–2.47)

0.552

kidneys, ever

287

33.9

22.5

1.76 (0.96–3.22)

0.066

1.68 (0.91–3.09)

0.094

1.96 (1.04–3.68)

0.037

liver sausage/paté, ever

285

66.7

62.6

1.19 (0.66–2.15)

0.556

1.16 (0.64–2.11)

0.620

1.16 (0.64–2.13)

0.626

blood sausage/black pudding, ever

285

57.1

54.1

1.13 (0.64–1.99)

0.664

1.11 (0.63–1.95)

0.729

1.12 (0.63–2.00)

0.696

tartare/carpaccio, ever

286

31.3

36.0

0.81 (0.44–1.46)

0.480

0.75 (0.41–1.38)

0.362

0.84 (0.45–1.56)

0.585

brain, ever

287

4.6

9.9

0.44 (0.13–1.52)

0.194

0.42 (0.12–1.47)

0.177

0.51 (0.14–1.79)

0.290

eyes, ever

287

1.5

0.5

3.45 (0.21–55.99)

0.383

3.00 (0.18–49.06)

0.441

5.59 (0.33–96.89)

0.235

cat-food, ever

290

0.0

1.3

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