请问连续变量分组OR如何做?(N个亚组就有N个OR)

The combined cohort (with 1249 death events) was partitioned into 15 quantiles of ΔP, and the relative risk for each quantile was calculated in relation to the mean risk of the combined population (assumed to be 1)

原文:N Engl J Med 2015;372:747-55. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsa1410639

请问这种连续变量分组OR怎么做呢?

我的点在于,通常情况下,如果将连续变量分成N个组,我会指定其中一组为ref,其他组相对这一组的OR,就只有N-1个OR值。

但是像这样文章中有多少个分组就有多少个OR,并且是以“mean risk of the combined population”作为ref,是如何操作实现的呢?在R语言中如何实现。谢谢!