Table 3 Cancer 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 cancers

  Access to food

Model 1

Model 2

 Paternal grandmother

 Good

1.09

[0.39, 3.00]

1.20

[0.40, 3.62]

 Intermediate

1.00

ref.

1.00

ref.

 Poor

1.37

[0.59, 3.18]

1.45

[0.63, 3.34]

Paternal grandfather

 Good

3.35 a

[1.95, 5.76]

3.44 b

[1.87, 6.34]

 Intermediate

1.00

ref.

1.00

ref.

 Poor

0.65

[0.20, 2.06]

0.63

[0.20, 1.99]

 Observations

3224

 

3224

 

 Number of deaths

117

 

117

 

Cancers not related to smoking

Paternal grandmother

 Good

0.00

[0.00]

0.00

[0.00,]

 Intermediate

1.00

ref.

1.00

ref.

 Poor

1.01

[0.31, 3.28]

1.13

[0.35, 3.65]

Paternal grandfather

 Good

3.51 c

[1.77, 6.97]

4.39 d

[2.02, 9.53]

 Intermediate

1.00

ref.

1.00

ref.

 Poor

0.78

[0.19, 3.26]

0.86

[0.21, 3.52]

 Observations

3224

 

3224

 

 Number of deaths

70

 

70

 
  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= 0.006
  5. bInteraction by gender: p = 0.005
  6. cInteraction by gender: p = 0.013
  7. dInteraction by gender: p = 0.009