Dietary patterns and severity of symptom with the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and its histological precursor lesions in China: a multicenter cross-sectional latent class analysis

Table 8 Logistic regression analysis of associations between symptom clusters with esophageal cancer and precancerous lesions

Severity of symptom	Esophagitis		LGIN		HGIN and ESCC
Severity of symptom	N (%)	OR(95%CI)	N (%)	OR(95%CI)	N (%)	OR(95%CI)
Asymptomatic	3367(86.7)	1.0	979(69.3)	1.0	297(89.5)	1.0
Mild symptoms	378(9.7)	1.87(1.66–2.10)	415(29.4)	1.25(1.11–1.41)	15(4.5)	0.98(0.58–1.66)
Overt symptoms	138(3.6)	1.04(0.86–1.25)	19(1.3)	0.82(0.51–1.31)	20(6.0)	1.58(1.00–2.50)

Note: LGIN low-grade intraepithelial neoplasia, HGIN high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia, ESCC esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval.

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