Table 4

HRs for colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality and all-cause mortality, adjusted for sex and age

	CRC incidence				CRC mortality				All-cause mortality
	No.	aHR	95% CI	p Value	No.	aHR	95% CI	p Value	No.	aHR	95% CI	p Value
Reference group	22 216	1	NR	NR	6431	1	NR	NR	164 346	1	NR	NR
Screening group	2794	0.94	0.90 to 0.97	<0.01	796	0.92	0.86 to 0.99	0.03	20 981	0.95	0.94 to 0.96	<0.01
Vejle County	1440	0.95	0.90 to 1.00	0.05	419	0.96	0.87 to 1.06	0.37	10 169	0.91	0.90 to 0.93	<0.01
Screening participants	732	0.92	0.85 to 0.99	0.03	178	0.77	0.67 to 0.90	<0.01	3405	0.58	0.56 to 0.60	<0.01
Non-responders	708	0.98	0.91 to 1.05	0.56	241	1.16	1.02 to 1.32	0.03	6764	1.26	1.23 to 1.29	<0.01
Copenhagen County	1354	0.92	0.87 to 0.98	<0.01	377	0.89	0.80 to 0.98	0.02	10 812	1	0.98 to 1.02	0.65
Screening participants	556	0.81	0.74 to 0.88	<0.01	131	0.65	0.55 to 0.77	<0.01	3018	0.59	0.57 to 0.61	<0.01
Non-responders	798	1.03	0.96 to 1.10	0.49	246	1.09	0.96 to 1.24	0.17	7794	1.35	1.32 to 1.38	<0.01
Males*	1543	0.94	0.89 to 1.00	0.05	439	0.91	0.83 to 1.01	0.07	11 944	0.96	0.94 to 0.98	<0.01
Females†	1251	0.93	0.88 to 0.98	0.01	357	0.93	0.83 to 1.04	0.19	9037	0.95	0.93 to 0.96	<0.01
All screening participants	1288	0.87	0.82 to 0.92	<0.01	309	0.72	0.64 to 0.80	<0.01	6423	0.59	0.57 to 0.60	<0.01
All non-responders	1506	1.00	0.95 to 1.06	0.93	487	1.12	1.03 to 1.23	0.01	14 558	1.31	1.29 to 1.33	<0.01

NR, not relevant.
*Compared with the reference group males.
†Compared with the reference group females.