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Table 4 Hazard ratios of death from BC, CV disease and other causes by levels of glucose, TG, and TC for each latent class

From: Prediagnostic serum glucose and lipids in relation to survival in breast cancer patients: a competing risk analysis

	Class I		Class II
	HR^a	95 % CI	HR^a	95 % CI
BC death
Log glucose	1.09	0.73, 1.63	0.84	0.45, 1.57
Log TG	1.87	1.01, 3.45	0.91	0.50, 1.68
Log TC	0.84	0.49, 1.45	1.02	0.53, 1.99
CV death
Log glucose	1.02	0.55, 1.91	1.46	0.97, 2.20
Log TG	7.68	2.45, 24.02	0.71	0.40, 1.25
Log TC	0.86	0.32, 2.28	2.07	1.16, 3.69
Other death
Log glucose	0.73	0.50, 1.05	2.26	1.50, 3.40
Log TG	1.69	0.95, 3.01	1.40	0.74, 2.64
Log TC	1.20	0.65, 2.24	0.45	0.19, 1.06

^aAll covariates were included in a single model and adjusted for age at diagnosis, SES (white collar, blue collar, unemployed or unknown) and fasting status (fasting, non-fasting, unknown)

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