Metabolic risk factors for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma: a prospective study of 580,000 subjects within the Me-Can project.

BMC Cancer · 2014 · PMC3929907 · PMID 24548688

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

In never and former smokers there was a similar trend that, however, did not reach statistical significance (Table 5 ).

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Other metabolic risk factors and the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma There was no association between glucose, cholesterol or triglycerides and risk of ESCC (Table 2 and 3 ), with the exception for a borderline significant association between triglycerides as a continuous variable in the fully adjusted model (RR 1.19 (95% CI, 1.01-1.40) per increment of 1 mmol/l).

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