Mantel-Haenszel weighted total cancer incidence rate ratio (MH-IRR) adjusted for various determinants with 95% confidence intervals in parentheses and excess relative risk per 100 kBq/m2 by adjustment column
| Exposure kBq Cs-137/m2 | Incidence per 100 000 person years | MH-IRR adjusted by | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Age+density | Age+H-region | Age+lung cancer incidence as proxy | Age + all cancer incidence 1986-87 as proxy | All† | ||
| †Adjusted by age, population density, H region, lung cancer incidence 1988–1996 (as proxy determinant for smoking and various unknown risk factors including industrial exposure) and all cancer incidence 1986–1987. ‡Reference had to be the exposure category 3–29 kBq/m2 because no representation of the combination of risk factors in the reference category <3 kBq/m2 (see text). | |||||||
| <3 | 210.3 | 1.00 (reference) | 1.00 (reference) | 1.00 (reference) | 1.00 (reference) | 1.00 (reference) | 1.00 (reference) |
| 3–29 | 222.1 | 1.09 (1.05 to 1.13) | 1.08 (1.04 to 1.12) | 1.07 (1.03 to 1.11) | 1.09 (1.05 to 1.13) | 1.08 (1.04 to 1.12) | 1.05 (0.99 to 1.11) |
| 30–39 | 223.6 | 1.05 (0.99 to 1.11) | 1.07 (1.01 to 1.13) | 1.04 (0.98 to 1.10) | 1.05 (0.99 to 1.11) | 1.04 (0.98 to 1.10) | 1.03 (0.95 to 1.12) |
| 40–59 | 248.8 | 1.11 (1.06 to 1.17) | 1.08 (1.03 to 1.14) | 1.09 (1.04 to 1.15) | 1.11 (1.06 to 1.17) | 1.10 (1.04 to 1.16) | 1.08 (0.94 to 1.23) |
| 60–79 | 209.5 | 0.98 (0.88 to 1.08) | 1.01 (0.91 to 1.13) | 0.99 (0.89 to 1.10) | 0.97 (0.88 to 1.08) | 0.97 (0.87 to 1.08) | 1.10 (0.89 to 1.34) |
| 80–120 | 244.4 | 1.23 (1.11 to 1.38) | 1.18 (1.05 to 1.33) | 1.20 (1.06 to 1.34) | 1.21 (1.08 to 1.36) | 1.22 (1.08 to 1.37) | 1.21 (0.98 to 1.49)‡ |
| Excess relative risk by column per 100 kBq/m2 (Poisson regression) | 0.16 (0.08 to 0.24) | 0.13 (0.05 to 0.21) | 0.12 (0.04 to 0.20) | 0.14 (0.06 to 0.22) | 0.15 (0.07 to 0.24) | 0.11 (0.03 to 0.20) | |