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Table 4 Hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) of depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders during the year after cancer diagnosis in relation to pre-diagnostic exclusive use of aspirin, stratified analysis by different factors

From: Aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders following a cancer diagnosis: a nationwide register-based cohort study

Characteristics

Any exclusive aspirin use

Current aspirin

Low-dose aspirin

Long-term aspirin

Calendar year at cancer diagnosis

 2006–2009

0.82 (0.71–0.95)

0.74 (0.63–0.87)

0.82 (0.70–0.97)

0.77 (0.65–0.92)

 2010–2013

0.93 (0.82–1.06)

0.90 (0.78–1.04)

0.93 (0.81–1.06)

0.89 (0.77–1.03)

P for interaction

0.72

0.36

0.66

0.70

Sex

 Male

0.96 (0.83–1.11)

0.92 (0.79–1.07)

0.97 (0.83–1.12)

0.90 (0.77–1.06)

 Female

0.80 (0.70–0.92)

0.74 (0.63–0.86)

0.80 (0.69–0.93)

0.77 (0.65–0.90)

P for interaction

< 0.01

< 0.01

< 0.01

0.01

Age at cancer diagnosis, years

  < 50

0.80 (0.42–1.54)

0.80 (0.38–1.71)

0.86 (0.44–1.71)

0.87 (0.37–2.07)

 50–59

0.89 (0.65–1.21)

0.79 (0.55–1.13)

0.87 (0.63–1.20)

0.71 (0.48–1.05)

 60–69

0.89 (0.74–1.08)

0.88 (0.71–1.08)

0.91 (0.75–1.11)

0.84 (0.68–1.04)

 ≥ 70

0.90 (0.79–1.03)

0.84 (0.73–0.97)

0.91 (0.79–1.04)

0.89 (0.77–1.02)

P for interaction

0.82

0.92

0.93

0.32

Education level

 Low

0.89 (0.76–1.03)

0.85 (0.72–1.01)

0.89 (0.76–1.05)

0.87 (0.74–1.03)

 Medium

1.02 (0.87–1.20)

0.93 (0.78–1.12)

1.04 (0.88–1.23)

0.96 (0.80–1.15)

 High

0.67 (0.53–0.84)

0.66 (0.51–0.85)

0.63 (0.49–0.81)

0.58 (0.45–0.77)

P for interaction

0.14

0.58

0.05

0.07

Marital status

 Unmarried

0.72 (0.54–0.96)

0.76 (0.55–1.04)

0.78 (0.58–1.06)

0.72 (0.52–1.01)

 Married/registered partnership

0.86 (0.74–0.99)

0.79 (0.67–0.93)

0.84 (0.72–0.98)

0.78 (0.66–0.91)

 Divorced/separated

0.97 (0.78–1.20)

0.96 (0.75–1.22)

0.98 (0.78–1.23)

0.99 (0.77–1.26)

 Widow(er)/surviving partner

0.97 (0.78–1.20)

0.88 (0.69–1.11)

0.98 (0.78–1.23)

0.95 (0.75–1.20)

P for interaction

0.82

0.78

0.76

0.27

Occupation

 Blue-collar

0.89 (0.61–1.29)

0.80 (0.52–1.23)

0.88 (0.60–1.30)

0.86 (0.56–1.32)

 White-collar

0.80 (0.58–1.11)

0.74 (0.51–1.07)

0.77 (0.55–1.09)

0.60 (0.40–0.91)

 Not working

0.89 (0.80–1.00)

0.85 (0.75–0.95)

0.90 (0.81–1.01)

0.87 (0.77–0.97)

P for interaction

0.93

0.92

0.86

0.84

Place of residence

 East

0.83 (0.71–0.97)

0.76 (0.64–0.91)

0.86 (0.73–1.01)

0.79 (0.67–0.94)

 South

0.93 (0.81–1.08)

0.93 (0.79–1.10)

0.93 (0.80–1.09)

0.90 (0.76–1.06)

 North

0.87 (0.69–1.12)

0.73 (0.56–0.97)

0.84 (0.65–1.09)

0.80 (0.61–1.05)

P for interaction

< 0.01

< 0.01

0.01

0.01

Chronic disease scorec

 1–3

0.91 (0.79–1.04)

0.84 (0.72–0.98)

0.91 (0.79–1.05)

0.86 (0.74–1.01)

  > 3

0.87 (0.75–1.00)

0.83 (0.71–0.97)

0.88 (0.75–1.02)

0.82 (0.70–0.96)

P for interaction

0.39

0.59

0.38

0.35

Cardiovascular disease

 No

0.95 (0.84–1.07)

0.88 (0.76–1.01)

0.97 (0.85–1.10)

0.90 (0.78–1.03)

 Yes

0.81 (0.68–0.95)

0.79 (0.66–0.94)

0.79 (0.66–0.93)

0.78 (0.66–0.93)

P for interaction

0.01

0.12

0.01

0.07

Inflammatory musculoskeletal condition

 No

0.90 (0.81–1.01)

0.84 (0.74–0.95)

0.92 (0.82–1.03)

0.86 (0.76–0.97)

 Yes

0.82 (0.66–1.02)

0.81 (0.64–1.03)

0.76 (0.60–0.96)

0.78 (0.61–0.99)

P for interaction

0.49

0.90

0.16

0.54

Inflammatory systemic disease

 No

0.88 (0.80–0.97)

0.83 (0.74–0.93)

0.89 (0.80–0.98)

0.84 (0.75–0.94)

 Yes

0.93 (0.51–1.69)

0.85 (0.43–1.67)

0.80 (0.41–1.57)

0.75 (0.37–1.54)

P for interaction

0.88

0.85

0.47

0.58

Pain and fever

 No

0.88 (0.80–0.97)

0.83 (0.74–0.92)

0.88 (0.79–0.98)

0.84 (0.75–0.94)

 Yes

0.98 (0.52–1.84)

1.04 (0.52–2.06)

0.92 (0.47–1.80)

0.61 (0.28–1.36)

P for interaction

0.90

0.66

0.98

0.42

Cancer stage

 Localized limited

0.78 (0.63–0.95)

0.71 (0.56–0.89)

0.79 (0.64–0.97)

0.73 (0.58–0.92)

 Localized advanced

1.06 (0.75–1.50)

1.12 (0.77–1.64)

0.95 (0.65–1.39)

0.82 (0.55–1.24)

 Regional spread

0.78 (0.61–0.99)

0.72 (0.55–0.95)

0.77 (0.60–1.00)

0.73 (0.56–0.96)

 Distant metastasis

1.01 (0.76–1.34)

0.98 (0.72–1.33)

1.10 (0.83–1.47)

1.08 (0.80–1.47)

P for interaction

0.57

0.45

0.23

0.14

Cancer type

 Prostate cancer

0.94 (0.71–1.26)

0.88 (0.64–1.20)

0.93 (0.68–1.26)

0.77 (0.56–1.07)

 Breast cancer

0.74 (0.56–0.98)

0.63 (0.46–0.87)

0.73 (0.54–0.97)

0.71 (0.52–0.98)

 Gastrointestinal cancer

1.03 (0.84–1.27)

1.05 (0.84–1.32)

1.02 (0.82–1.27)

1.03 (0.82–1.29)

 Lung cancer

0.78 (0.58–1.05)

0.70 (0.50–0.97)

0.82 (0.61–1.12)

0.73 (0.53–1.01)

 Skin cancer excl. Melanoma

1.07 (0.66–1.74)

0.89 (0.52–1.53)

1.09 (0.65–1.84)

1.19 (0.71–1.99)

 Melanoma

0.56 (0.30–1.03)

0.54 (0.28–1.05)

0.45 (0.23–0.91)

0.42 (0.20–0.89)

 Kidney and bladder

0.86 (0.59–1.26)

0.80 (0.52–1.23)

0.85 (0.56–1.27)

0.92 (0.61–1.39)

 Gynecologic cancer

0.76 (0.52–1.12)

0.83 (0.55–1.25)

0.78 (0.52–1.16)

0.68 (0.44–1.05)

 Hematological malignancies

1.16 (0.82–1.66)

1.25 (0.85–1.83)

1.25 (0.87–1.80)

1.18 (0.79–1.76)

 Other cancers

0.80 (0.62–1.05)

0.67 (0.49–0.91)

0.83 (0.63–1.09)

0.74 (0.55–1.01)

P for interaction

0.04

0.03

0.15

0.12

  1. The columns refer to four definitions of exposure in separate models: any exclusive use of aspirin, current use of aspirin, low-dose use of aspirin, and long-term use of aspirin, where no use of NSAIDs was used as the reference in all models. Stratum-specific hazard ratios were estimated for each exposure by fitting separate Cox proportional hazard models for different levels of the stratification variable and are presented in different rows, adjusting for age, sex, calendar year at cancer diagnosis, educational level, occupation, region of residence, marital status, Chronic Disease Score, potential indications for NSAIDs, cancer type, cancer stage, and subtypes of hematological malignancies. To assess the interaction between the exposure and each stratification variable, multivariable models were fitted adjusting for the above covariates and including an interaction term for the exposure and each level of the individual stratification variable. P for interaction was then calculated through a Wald test of the null hypothesis that interaction parameter for the exposure and the individual stratification variable is equal to zero. P < 0.05 indicates a statistically significant interaction between the exposure and the stratification variable