An important limitation is that only 3% of the NEDOCS is scored as overcrowded, so no conclusions can be drawn about the agreement for higher categories of overcrowding.
The ORs for higher categories of smoking were slightly greater than unity in both men and women, but the increases were not statistically significant.
Adjustment resulted in substantial attenuation of these effect sizes (down to 24%and7%7%, respectively), but the associations remained statistically significant for higher categories on the unhealthy lifestyle index.
This is demonstrated by the low cut point values for higher categories of malaria intervention variables (60%, 45 % and 44 respectively for bed nets, prompt treatment of children with fever and anti-malaria drugs during pregnancy for prevention).
Moreover, CAC volume changes were greater for higher categories of systolic blood pressure (CAC volume change [square root]: systolic blood pressure <120 mmHg, 1.8 ± 2.2; 120–140 mmHg, 2.4 ± 2.8; 140–160 mmHg, 3.1 ± 3.2; >160 mmHg, 4.1 ± 3.0; P = 0.003 for linear trend) in models adjusting for the same covariates.
There was also no significant reduction of breast cancer risk for highest category of total folate intake compared with those of lowest category (pooled OR=0.87; 95% CI=0.61 1.23; Table 2).
In addition, adjusted analysis for fetal deaths exhibited an increase in risk only for the higher category of exposure to traffic-related air pollution.
For example, the figure 0.991 for 'Downhearted' under 'Both sexes' means that the follow-up RMDQ score is 0.991 units higher for every higher category of Downheartedness.
† For every higher category of each prognostic factor, the 'Effect' in RMDQ units, rises by the amount shown.
The SRRST categories were assessed by their P-values for trend and were used to calculate the OR and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) relative to the category of 'no risk' for each higher category.
