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. 2024 Mar 16;39(4):379–391. doi: 10.1007/s10654-024-01100-0

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics (means with SD, or percent) of bladder cancer cases and subcohort members with complete diabetes and covariable data, Netherlands Cohort Study

Characteristic Men Women
Subcohort Bladder cancer cases Subcohort Bladder cancer cases
Invasive Noninvasive Invasive Noninvasive
N 2099 834 937 2168 186 151
Age at baseline, mean (SD) (years) 61.3 (4.2) 62 (4.1) 61.7 (4.1) 61.4 (4.3) 61.9 (4.2) 61.6 (4.2)
Age at diagnosis cancer, mean (SD) (years) 73.4 (6.2) 73.2 (6.2) 74.5 (6.8) 73.7 (6.4)
BMI, mean (SD) (kg/m2) 25 (2.6) 25.0 (2.5) 25.1 (2.6) 25.1 (3.5) 25.0 (3.8) 25.0 (3.6)
Alcohol intake, mean (SD) (g/day) 14.9 (16.8) 17.9 (18.4) 16.9 (17.1) 5.7 (9.4) 7.4 (12.1) 6.4 (9.9)
Never smoker, n (%) 208 (9.9) 38 (4.6) 51 (5.4) 1290 (59.5) 90 (48.4) 73 (48.3)
Ever cigarette smokers only
Smoking frequency, mean (SD) (cigarettes/day) 17.2 (10.6) 18.5 (10.7) 17.7 (10.4) 11.6 (8.4) 13.2 (8.6) 13.9 (9)
Smoking duration, mean (SD) (years) 33.7 (11.7) 37.4 (10.7) 35.8 (11.2) 27.9 (12.4) 31.8 (11.5) 32.1 (12.4)
University or higher vocational education, n (%) 396 (18.9) 155 (18.6) 183 (19.5) 194 (8.9) 13 (7) 10 (6.6)
Family history of bladder cancer, n (%) 15 (0.7) 7 (0.8) 8 (0.9) 31 (1.4) 3 (1.6) 5 (3.3)
History of diabetes
Type 2 diabetes (T2DM), n (%) 67 (3.2) 32 (3.9) 28 (3) 76 (3.5) 11 (5.9) 0 (0)
Type 1 diabetes (T1DM), n (%) 2 (0.1) 3 (0.4) 2 (0.2) 5 (0.2) 1 (0.6) 0 (0)
Subjects with T2DM only
Age at diagnosis of T2DM, mean (SD) (years) 54.4 (7.7) 53.6 (9.2) 52.9 (7.5) 54.8 (7.4) 60.2 (4.6) N.A
Time since diagnosis T2DM, mean (SD) (years) 8.8 (7) 9.3 (8.8) 8.4 (6.3) 8.3 (6.3) 3.6 (2.7) N.A
T2DM antidiabetic medication
T2DM without antidiabetic medication, n (%) 34 (51.5) 15 (46.8) 18 (66.7) 39 (51.3) 1 (9.0) N.A
T2DM with blood glucose lowering drugs, 28 (42.4) 12 (37.5) 7 (25.9) 28 (36.8) 10 (91.0) N.A
excluding insulin, n (%)
T2DM with insulin and analogues, n (%) 4 (6.0) 5 (15.6) 2 (7.4) 9 (11.8) 0 (0) N.A.