Table 1 All-cause mortality 1961–2015 in G2 men by paternal grandparents’ harvest exposures in SGP: hazard ratios with 95% confidence limits (in brackets) based on Cox regression

From: Paternal grandfather’s access to food predicts all-cause and cancer mortality in grandsons

 

All-cause mortality

  Access to food

Model 1

Model 2

Paternal grandmother

Good

0.88

[0.46, 1.66]

0.93

[0.49, 1.76]

Intermediate

1.00

ref.

1.00

ref.

Poor

0.68

[0.36, 1.28]

0.70

[0.35, 1.37]

Paternal grandfather

 Good

1.50a

[0.99, 2.26]

1.55 b

[1.02, 2.35]

 Intermediate

1.00

ref.

1.00

ref.

 Poor

0.92

[0.52, 1.62]

0.93

[0.51, 1.68]

 Observations

3224

 

3224

 

 Number of deaths

339

 

339

 
  1. Statistically significant estimates (95% CI) in bold type
  2. Model 1: Adjusted for G2 birth year, sibship size and sibling order, father’s harvest exposure in SGP, social class, income and education, and any parental death before age 18
  3. Model 2: + linear trends for grandparents birth years, with confidence limits based on sibling cluster robust standard errors
  4. aInteraction by gender: p = 0.065
  5. bInteraction by gender: p = 0.053
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