Table 2 Risk estimates for leukocyte relative telomere length and GCA.

From: Leukocyte telomere length and risk of gastric cardia adenocarcinoma

Variables

Relative Telomere Length

Controls, N (%)

Cases, N (%)

OR (95% CI)a

P valuea

Overall telomere length

  Long

≥1.180

255 (50.00)

201 (38.36)

1.00

 

  Short

<1.180

255 (50.00)

323 (61.64)

1.71 (1.31–2.24)

9.05 × 10−5

Quartile

  75–100%

≥1.448

127 (24.90)

90 (17.18)

1.00

 

  50–75%

1.180–1.447

128 (25.10)

111 (21.18)

1.49 (1.00–2.22)

0.052

  25–50%

0.898–1.179

128 (25.10)

160 (30.53)

2.07 (1.40–3.04)

2.33 × 10−4

  0–25%

<0.898

127 (24.90)

163 (31.11)

2.18 (1.47–3.22)

9.90 × 10−5

    

P trend b

3.38 × 10−5

  1. Abbreviations: GCA, gastric cardia adenocarcinoma; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; SD, standard deviation.
  2. aData were calculated by logistic regression with adjustments for age, sex, smoking and drinking status.
  3. bTest for trend of odds was two-sided and based on likelihood ratio test assuming a multiplicative model.
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