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Table 6 Hazard ratio (HR) in Sweden by country of birth, 1961 to 2007

From: Breast cancer incidence and case fatality among 4.7 million women in relation to social and ethnic background: a population-based cohort study

Birth region

Death

HR* (95% CI)

Birth region

Death

HR* (95% CI)

All immigrants

1578

1.01 (0.95 to 1.07)

Other

4

3.25 (1.06 to 9.95)

   

Northern

840

1.02 (0.94 to 1.11)

Africa

27

1.10 (0.67 to 1.82)

Denmark

90

1.13 (0.90 to 1.43)

Eastern/Middle

17

0.81 (0.43 to 1.52)

Estonia

27

0.70 (0.45 to 1.11)

Ethiopia

8

0.97 (0.37 to 2.52)

Finland

612

1.04 (0.95 to 1.14)

Other

9

0.74 (0.32 to 1.70)

Iceland

3

2.49 (0.67 to 9.29)

Northern

7

2.81 (1.13 to 6.96)

Latvia

6

0.61 (0.24 to 1.55)

Southern

2

0.48 (0.05 to 4.23)

Norway

90

0.96 (0.76 to 1.21)

Western

1

N/A

UK

12

0.71 (0.35 to 1.44)

   

Southern

192

0.95 (0.80 to 1.11)

Asia

120

0.91 (0.72 to 1.14)

Bosnia

36

1.40 (0.91 to 2.13)

Eastern

7

0.73 (0.31 to 1.74)

Greece

24

0.90 (0.57 to 1.41)

South-Central

40

0.93 (0.63 to 1.35)

Italy

5

0.95 (0.38 to 2.34)

India

5

0.54 (0.19 to 1.52)

Portugal

8

0.50 (0.21 to 1.16)

Iran

31

0.97 (0.63 to 1.51)

Spain

5

0.59 (0.21 to 1.67)

Other

4

1.57 (0.54 to 4.53)

Yugoslavia†

114

0.95 (0.77 to 1.17)

South-Eastern

14

0.98 (0.49 to 1.98)

Western

175

1.02 (0.86 to 1.21)

Thailand

5

0.30 (0.07 to 1.29)

Austria

16

1.43 (0.82 to 2.47)

Other

9

2.02 (0.90 to 4.53)

France

7

1.00 (0.39 to 2.57)

Western

59

0.91 (0.65 to 1.28)

Germany

139

1.00 (0.83 to 1.21)

Iraq

19

0.76 (0.43 to 1.34)

Netherlands

9

1.21 (0.56 to 2.62)

Lebanon

4

0.76 (0.23 to 2.52)

Other

4

0.59 (0.21 to 1.69)

Syria

13

0.93 (0.38 to 2.24)

   

Turkey

16

1.05 (0.56 to 1.97)

Latin America

29

1.06 (0.67 to 1.66)

Other

7

1.64 (0.57 to 4.77)

Chile

14

1.45 (0.81 to 2.61)

   

Uruguay

4

0.90 (0.19 to 4.38)

Europe

1,388

1.01 (0.95 to 1.08)

Other

11

0.72 (0.33 to 1.56)

Eastern

181

1.05 (0.88 to 1.24)

   

Czechoslovakia†

18

1.07 (0.62 to 1.85)

North America

13

1.03 (0.49 to 2.16)

Hungary

36

0.92 (0.63 to 1.34)

Canada

2

0.71 (0.15 to 3.30)

Poland

89

1.26 (0.98 to 1.61)

USA

11

1.18 (0.50 to 2.77)

Romania

16

0.71 (0.41 to 1.24)

   

Soviet Union†

18

0.81 (0.47 to 1.39)

Oceania

1

0.45 (0.06 to 3.36)

  1. * HRs are adjusted for age at follow-up and calendar period of diagnosis, education and place of residence at diagnosis. Native Swedish women with both parents born in Sweden were the reference group. † Czechoslovakia includes Czech Republic and Slovakia. Soviet Union includes Belarus, Moldova, Russian Federation and Ukraine. Yugoslavia includes Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro.