Advances in Epidemiology / 2015 / Article / Tab 2 / Research Article
Using the Negative Exponential Model to Describe Changes in Risk of Smoking-Related Diseases following Changes in Exposure to Tobacco Table 2 Variation in
by age
a for four smoking-related diseases as estimated in four recent publications.
Disease Estimates of (95% CI) Age < 50 Age 50–59 Age 60–69 Age 70–79 b
IHD [3 ] 1.47 5.22 7.48 13.77 <0.001 (0.91–2.39) (3.79–7.20) (4.56–12.28) (4.27–44.35)
Lung cancer [4 ] 6.98 10.39 10.60 12.99 <0.001 (5.98–8.16) (9.45–11.42) (9.70–11.58) (8.15–20.69)
COPD [5 ] 9.97 14.18 16.06 11.60 0.22 (5.67–17.55) (12.35–16.28) (9.70–26.60) (9.40–14.31)
Stroke [6 ] 1.98 3.47 7.71 17.74 0.34 (0.41–9.65) (0.79–15.19) (2.12–27.97) (1.46–215.7)
For prospective studies taken as age at baseline for IHD, COPD, and stroke but as age at midpoint of follow-up for lung cancer.b Heterogeneity between groups.