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Table 2 The adjusted risk of all-cause and specific-cause mortality under individual and joint interventions on BLLs, UCd, and DII, using parametric g-formula with pooled logistic regression modelsa

From: Potential benefits of joint hypothetical interventions on diet, lead, and cadmium on mortality in US adults

 

All-cause mortality

 

Cancer mortality

 

Cardiovascular diseases mortality

Interventions

Adjusted risk

ratio (95% CI)

Adjusted risk

difference (95% CI)

 

Adjusted risk

ratio (95% CI)

Adjusted risk

difference (95% CI)

 

Adjusted risk

ratio (95% CI)

Adjusted risk

difference (95% CI)

No intervention

(natural course)

1

0

 

1

0

 

1

0

Lower BLLs = 5th

percentile

0.59 (0.44 to 0.81)

-3.32% (-5.02 to -1.43)

 

0.59 (0.31 to 1.03)

-0.79% (-1.39 to 0.03)

 

0.63 (0.38 to 1.17)

-0.97% (-1.87 to 0.49)

Lower UCd = 5th

percentile

0.56 (0.41 to 0.79)

-3.56% (-5.29 to -1.67)

 

0.92 (0.38 to 1.48)

-0.16% (-1.16 to 0.87)

 

1.09 (0.61 to 1.56)

+ 0.25% (-1.01 to 1.57)

Lower both BLLs and UCd to 5th percentile

0.35 (0.22 to 0.64)

-5.37% (-7.28 to -2.64)

 

0.49 (0.12 to 1.39)

-0.97% (-1.89 to 0.70)

 

0.43 (0.22 to 0.83)

-1.55% (-2.69 to -0.42)

Anti-inflammatory diet = 75th percentile DII value

0.96 (0.93 to 0.99)

-0.32% (-0.67 to -0.12)

 

0.90 (0.72 to 0.98)

-0.18% (-0.65 to -0.04)

 

0.93 (0.83 to 0.99)

-0.19% (-0.46 to -0.02)

Lower both BLLs and UCd and anti-inflammatory diet

0.32 (0.20 to 0.61)

-5.47% (-7.48 to -3.10)

 

0.19 (0.05 to 0.67)

-1.50% (-2.52 to -0.62)

 

0.33 (0.09 to 0.70)

-1.80% (-2.83 to -0.77)

Higher BLLs and UCd = 95th percentile and

pro-inflammatory diet (25th percentile DII)

1.72 (1.37 to 2.21)

+ 5.87% (2.71 to 10.53)

 

1.39 (0.82 to 2.75)

+ 0.79% (-0.43 to 3.51)

 

1.22 (0.74 to 1.85)

+ 0.59% (-0.77 to 2.58)

Higher lead and cadmium levels and

pro-inflammatory diet

1

0

 

1

0

 

1

0

Lower both BLLs and UCd and anti-inflammatory diet

0.19 (0.10 to 0.37)

-11.50% (-17.81 to -7.17)

 

0.15 (0.04 to 0.55)

-2.34% (-4.43 to -0.73)

 

0.26 (0.07 to 0.64)

-2.44% (-4.54 to -0.82)

  1. a200 iterations were performed for bootstrapping the estimated 95% confidence interval