Research Article
Association between Blood Donation and Malignant and Benign Tumour Risk: A Population-Based Study of 3.4 Million Participants in China
Table 2
Overall and age-stratified malignant tumour cases in blood donors versus nonblood donors among males and females.
| Male (malignant) | Donors | Nonblood donors | Donors vs. nonblood donors RR | P-trend |
| 18–25 | 185 | 217 | 0.97 (0.83–1.32) | | 26–35 | 306 | 333 | 0.97 (0.81–1.21) | 36–45 | 580 | 728 | 0.90 (0.88–1.31) | 46–55 | 646 | 835 | 0.79 (0.58–0.89)∗ | >55 | 344 | 620 | 0.62 (0.49–0.77)∗ |
| Female (malignant) | | 18–25 | 233 | 260 | 0.95 (0.79–1.19) | | 26–35 | 319 | 381 | 0.88 (0.74–1.11) | 36–45 | 757 | 837 | 0.91 (0.80–1.07) | 46–55 | 569 | 698 | 0.85 (0.70–1.13) | >55 | 140 | 429 | 0.57 (0.43–0.94)∗ |
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