Shared Medical and Environmental Risk Factors in Dry Eye Syndrome, Sjogren’s Syndrome, and B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Case-Control Study
Table 3
Risk factors—multinomial regression model.
Risk factor
Control
DES
SS
NHL
OR
OR
95% CI
OR
95% CI
OR
95% CI
Ethnicity:
North African
1
0.69
0.32-1.46
2.27
1.05-4.93
0.88
0.49-1.58
West Asian
1
1.06
0.54-2.10
1.68
0.79-3.58
0.97
0.56-1.69
Mixed
1
2.21
1.00-5.14
3.19
1.19-8.57
1.45
0.68-3.10
Eastern European
1
Ref
Ref
Ref
Smoking (yes vs. no)
1
0.90
0.55-1.47
0.76
0.42-1.35
1.17
0.78-1.75
Alcohol consumption (yes vs. no)
1
0.54
0.33-0.88
0.26
0.14-0.49
0.47
0.31-0.71
Hospitalization for infection (yes vs. no)
1
3.29
1.97-5.47
4.74
2.66-8.44
1.92
1.23-2.99
1st-degree relative with AID (yes vs. no)
1
3.55
1.83-6.91
5.25
2.59-10.63
0.59
0.27-1.27
1st-degree relative with hematopoietic cancer (yes vs. no)
1
1.31
0.57-3.00
0.65
0.22-1.96
1.93
1.02-3.67
Reference group: control. Adjusted for age (continuous), gender, and education. AID = autoimmune disease; CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio; DES = dry eye syndrome; SS = Sjogren’s syndrome; B-NHL = B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma; Ref = reference category.
