Malignancy in ankylosing spondylitis: a cross-sectional analysis of a large population database

BMC Rheumatology

Table 2 Odd-ratios of the association between AS and cancer based on different logistic regression models

	Odds ratio	95% CI	p value
Crude	0.813	[0.768, 0.859]	< 0.0001
Adjusted by age groups	0.931	[0.877, 0.989]	0.02
Adjusted by sex	0.811	[0.767, 0.858]	< 0.0001
Males	0.871	[0.806, 0.941]
Females	0.752	[0.693, 0.816]
Adjusted by race	0.743	[0.701, 0.787]	< 0.0001
Adjusted by smoking status	0.732	[0.690, 0.776]	< 0.0001
Adjusted by age groups and sex	0.922	[0.868, 0.979]	0.0082
Males	1.011	[0.929, 1.099]
Females	0.840	[0.769, 0.916]
Adjusted by age groups and race	0.845	[0.794, 0.900]	< 0.0001
Adjusted by age groups and smoking	0.881	[0.827, 0.939]	< 0.0001

Final model: adjusted by age groups and sex
The results in bold are the results of the final model we used, stratified by sex. Bold is significant as we made our conclusions based on these numbers

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