How would you interpret the odds ratio of by Dr. Janet Forrester

Question 8 / 8: How would you interpret the odds ratio of 3.1 for the association of coffee consumption of > 8 cups a day with acute lymphocytic leukemia?

Answer:

The OR is interpreted like a relative risk. You would interpret this OR as meaning

that a woman who consumes more than 8 cups of coffee per day during pregnancy is 3.1

times as likely to have a child who will be diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL).

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Dr.Janet ForresterProfessor

Tufts University School of Medicine

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Attribution: Janet, E.A. Forrester, Kwan Ho Kenneth Chui, Steven Cohen, Michael D. Kneeland, Alice Tang, David Tybor. Epidemiology and Biostatistics 2010. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/65/ (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

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