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Table 3 Breast cancer risk after cohort entry in distinct autoantibody strata, compared to the general population#

From: Association of systemic lupus erythematosus autoantibody diversity with breast cancer protection

Antibody

Sample size

No. obs.

No. exp.

SLE cohort SIR (95% CI)

p value

AA* SIR (95% CI)

AA p value

Non-AA^ SIR (95% CI)

Non-AA p value

All

2431

22

34.9

0.63 (0.39–0.95)

0.027

1.13 (0.65–1.84)

0.69

0.29 (0.11–0.63)

< 0.001

dsDNA

1503

12

21.7

0.55 (0.29–0.96)

0.035

0.97 (0.44–1.84)

0.99

0.24 (0.05–0.71)

0.003

RNP

709

9

7.3

1.24 (0.56–2.34)

0.62

1.78 (0.77–3.50)

0.17

0.36 (0.01–2.00)

0.47

Sm

507

2

4.9

0.41 (0.05–1.47)

0.27

0.34 (0.01–1.90)

0.42

0.51 (0.01–2.83)

0.83

Ro

756

4

10.2

0.39 (0.11–1.01)

0.053

0.23 (0.01–1.26)

0.13

0.52 (0.11–1.52)

0.35

La

313

0

4.7

0.00 (0.00–0.78)

0.018

0.00 (0.00–2.28)

0.40

0.00 (0.00–1.19)

0.09

LAC

615

4

11

0.37 (0.10–0.94)

0.031

0.92 (0.25–2.36)

0.99

0.00 (0.00–0.56)

0.003

ACL

1118

14

19.9

0.70 (0.38–1.18)

0.21

1.35 (0.67–2.42)

0.40

0.25 (0.05–0.74)

0.005

Beta2GP1

446

4

9

0.44 (0.12–1.13)

0.11

0.60 (0.07–2.17)

0.71

0.35 (0.04–1.27)

0.15

  1. #When adjusting for multiple comparisons (9 per racial strata), p ≤ 0.006 is considered statistically significant
  2. LAC lupus anticoagulant, ACL anticardiolipin, Beta2GP1 beta 2 glycoprotein 1, AA African American; non-AA non-African American
  3. *N = 966 SLE patients contributing 8488 person-years
  4. ^N = 1465 SLE patients contributing 11,911 person-years