From: Blood cadmium levels and Alzheimer’s disease mortality risk in older US adults
Event no. (%) | Crude HR (95 % CIs) | Adjusted HR (95 % CIs)a | |||||
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Blood cadmium level | Model 1 | Model 2 | |||||
Cadmium quartile, μg/L | |||||||
Quartile 1 (≤0.3) | 7 (0.7) | 1.00 | (ref) | 1.00 | (ref) | 1.00 | (ref) |
Quartile 2 (0.3–0.4) | 11 (1.4) | 1.80 | (0.55–5.92) | 1.83 | (0.57–5.86) | 1.81 | (0.54–6.07) |
Quartile 3 (0.4–0.6) | 15 (1.3) | 1.99 | (0.83–4.75) | 1.86 | (0.74–4.70) | 1.88 | (0.73–4.85) |
Quartile 4 (>0.6) | 18 (1.6) | 2.66 | (1.06–6.63) | 3.76 | (1.43–9.93) | 3.83 | (1.38–10.59) |
p value for trend | 0.228 | 0.068 | 0.068 |