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Table 2 Grandparents' childhood experience of drastic change in food availability, from one year to the next year, going from poor to good and good to poor by descendants' cardiovascular mortality*

From: Change in paternal grandmothers´ early food supply influenced cardiovascular mortality of the female grandchildren

 

Poor to good

Poor to good

Good to poor

Good to poor

 

Men

Women

Men

Women

Paternal grandfather

0.90 (0.45-1.80)

1.42 (0.64-3.14)

1.08 (0.29-4.00)

0.15 (0.02-1.41)

Patermal grandmother

0.54 (0.24-1.20)

1.62 (0.58-4.52)

0.86 (0.22-3.3)

21.27 (2.24-202.47)

Maternal grandfather

1.17 (0.58-2.35)

1.22 (0.46-3.23)

1.28 (0.31-5.34)

3.37 (0.59-19.22)

Maternal Grandmother

0.60 (0.24-1.49)

0.91 (0.30-2.75)

0.75 (0.22-2.58)

0.16 (0.02-1.32)

Index cases

151

151

126

126

  1. *Associations are presented as Hazards ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs 95%). The models are adjusted for birth cohort, mother´s literacy, father´s death before the index person attained 13 years of age. Bold numbers indicate significant associations, p<0.05.