Research Article
Relationship between Latitude and Melanoma in Italy
Table 2
Crude and adjusted Mortality Rate Ratio (MRR) and 95% confidence intervals for malignant melanoma for selected variables.
| Variable | Crude MRR, 95% CI | Adjusted⋀ MRR, 95% CI |
| Sex | | | | | Female | 1.000 | | 1.000 | | Male | 1.276 | 1.154–1.410 | 1.587 | 1.434–1.755 | Age (years) | | | | | 0–44 | 1.000 | | 1.000 | | 45–59 | 4.707 | 3.893–5.690 | 4.699 | 3.887–5.681 | 60–74 | 9.855 | 8.289–11.716 | 9.993 | 8.405–11.882 | 75+ | 19.792 | 16.672–23.495 | 21.024 | 17.695–24.979 | Mean provincial Income 2002 | 1.008 | 1.006–1.011 | 1.004 | 1.002–1.007 | Mammography 2000 (%) | 1.019 | 1.013–1.025 | | | Blond hair 1859–63 (%) | 1.032 | 1.023–1.041 | 1.025 | 1.014–1.035 | Latitude (increasing degrees) | 1.115 | 1.083–1.147 | | |
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⋀Multivariate Poisson model including sex, age, mean provincial 2002 income, and % blond hair. LR chi2(6) = 1844.91. Pseudo = 0.7621.
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