Table 4

Relative odds of a disease event in the two groups of men defined by milk consumption

Milk consumption	Incident disease events	Relative odds for an event
Milk consumption	Incident disease events	Adjusted*	Adjusted†
*Relative odds unadjusted. †Relative odds adjusted for age, total energy, smoking, social class. ‡Relative odds adjusted for above and BMI, systolic blood pressure, consumption of alcohol, and fat consumption. §Total events are ischaemic strokes and ischaemic heart disease combined. ¶Total deaths are deaths from any cause. Men who had had a prior stroke have been omitted from the data on stoke, and men with a prior IHD event have been omitted from the data on IHD.
Milk intake:
below the median	35 strokes	1.00	1.00
at or above median	18 strokes	0.52	0.52
		(0.27 to 0.93)	(0.27 to 0.99)
		p = 0.03	p = 0.05
Milk intake:
below the median	64 IHD events	1.00	1.00
at or above median	50 IHD events	0.75	0.88
		(0.49 to 1.16)	(0.56 to 1.40)
		p = 0.20	p = 0.59
Milk intake:
below the median	88 total events‡	1.00	1.00
at or above median	64 total events‡	0.67	0.76
		(0.44 to 0.98)	(0.50 to 1.15)
		p = 0.04	p = 0.19
Milk intake:
below the median	116 total deaths§	1.00	1.00
at or above median	109 total deaths§	1.11	1.08
		(0.78 to 1.60)	(0.74 to 1.58)
		p = 0.56	p = 0.67