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. 2025 Feb 4;15:4261. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-88297-6

Table 2.

Patient characteristics.

Variable Development cohort n = 3839 Validation cohort n = 960
CsPCa n = 1607 (41.9%) Non-CsPCa n = 2232 (58.1%) p-value CsPCa n = 394 (41.1%) Non-CsPCa n = 566 (58.9%) p-value
Age 71 (65,76) 66 (60,71) < 0.001 70 (65,77) 66 (61,72) < 0.001
PSA 8.0 (5.6,13.5) 6.3 (4.7,9.0) < 0.001 8.7 (5.7 14.9) 6.2 (4.5,9.0) < 0.001
PV 45 (34, 62) 62 (44,85) < 0.001 47 (35,65) 64 (46,86) < 0.001
PSAD 0.18 (0.12,0.32) 0.10 (0.07,0.16) < 0.001 0.19 (0.12,0.33) 0.10 (0.07,0.15) < 0.001
DRE (suspicious) 699 (43.5%) 368 (16.5%) < 0.001 186 (47.2%) 99 (17.5%) < 0.001
FH (yes) 125 (7.8%) 148 (6.6%) 0.172 36 (9.1%) 32 (5.7%) 0.038
PNB (yes) 392 (24.4%) 768 (34.4%) < 0.001 87 (22.1%) 205 (36.2%) < 0.001
PI-RADS < 0.001 < 0.001
1 51(3.2%) 393 (17.6%) 9 (2.3%) 96 (17.0%)
2 21 (1.3%) 117 (5.2%) 2 (0.5%) 28 (4.9%)
3 163 (10.1%) 801 (35.9%) 36 (9.1%) 207 (36.6%)
4 746 (46.4%) 782 (35.0%) 190 (48.2%) 207 (36.6%)
5 626 (39.0%) 139 (6.3%) 157 (39.9%) 28 (4.9%) < 0.001

CsPCa clinically significant prostate cancer, PSA prostate specific antigen, PV prostate volume, PSAD PSA density, DRE digital rectal exam findings, FH family history of PCa. PNB previous negative biopsy.