Lowering the Risk of Rectal Cancer among Habitual Beer Drinkers by Dietary Means

Table 2

Odds ratios (ORs), 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) and P values for categories of beer consumption for rectal cancer unadjusted and adjusted for other risk factors. Data from the Melbourne Colorectal Cancer Study.

Upper levelof intake/dayof category (ml/day)	Unadjusted^(a)		Adjusted^(b)
	OR^(c)	(95% CI)	OR^(c)	(95% CI)
Beer intake
None	1.00		1.00
Any	1.68***	(1.25,2.27)	1.75***	(1.28,2.41)
1–200 ml/day	1.29	(0.84,1.98)	1.34	(0.86,2.07)
201–740 ml/day	1.83**	(1.21,2.79)	1.99**	(1.28,3.08)
More than; 740 ml/day	2.15***	(1.38,3.36)	2.28***	(1.40,3.69)
Trend	1.31***	(1.14,1.50)	1.34***	(1.16,1.55)

(a) Adjusted for age and sex only.
(b) Adjusted for age and sex, alcohol (yes/no), body mass index (quintiles), energy intake (quintiles), family history of colorectal cancer (yes/no), oral contraceptive pill use (yes/no), and cigarette pack-years (none, 1–19, 20–39, or ≥40), aspirin (yes/no), and NSAIDS (yes/no).
(c) ^∗∗𝑃≤.01, ^∗∗∗𝑃≤.001.