Secular trends of salted fish consumption and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a multi-jurisdiction ecological study in 8 regions from 3 continents

Table 2 Correlation coefficient (r) from Pearson correlation analysis between cumulative cigarette consumption per capita (per stick) and age-standardized incidence and mortality rates in Hong Kong, 1991–2008

Year of cumulative cigarette consumption per capita	Age-standardized incidence rate		Age-standardized mortality rates
	Male	Female	Male	Female
0	0.694*	0.735*	0.598*	0.446
5	0.646*	0.685*	0.768*	0.592*
10	0.635	0.625	0.941*	0.563

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