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Table 3 Logistic regression models including gastric cancer or first-degree relative of gastric cancer patients as variables dependent in comparison with gastritis and oipA, age and gender as independent variables

From: oipA “on” status of Helicobacter pylori is associated with gastric cancer in North-Eastern Brazil

Variables

Univariate

Multivariate

P value

OR

95% CI

P value

Gastric cancera

 Increasing age

0.06

1.08

1.03–1.14

0.003

 Gender

0.74

   

 oipA + status “on”

0.013

9.20

1.45–58.48

0.02

Relatives of GCb

 Increasing age

0.70

–

–

–

 Gender

0.09

4.61

1.22–17.74

0.02

 oipA + status “on”

0.003

14.75

2.53–86.13

0.003

  1. +, positive; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; Relatives of GC, first-degree relatives of gastric cancer patients. The Hosmer-Lemeshow tests showed good fitness of the logistic regression model a(P = 0.46; 8 degrees of freedom; 9 steps) and b(P = 0.42; 8 degrees of freedom; 9 steps)
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