Multivariate hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval of association between number of teeth, type 2 diabetes mellitus and cancer.

§: Same as in Table 2Model 1: Same as in Table 2Model 2: Same as in Table 2Model 3: Same as in Table 2Model 4: Model 3+ Three retained factors from factor analysis of 49 food groupsModel 5: Same as in Table 2HR: Hazard ratio,* P–value for association;‡ P–value for linear trend;† adjusted for competing-risk eventsT2DM and cancer: All variables as well as the final model (model 4) showed no evidence that proportional hazard assumption was violated (P = 0.09 and 0.52 respectively).Multivariate hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval of association between number of teeth, type 2 diabetes mellitus and cancer.