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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 13.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2009 May 13;301(18):1883–1891. doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.643

Table 1.

Baseline participant characteristics

Characteristics Intervention (n=319) Control (n=322)
Age, mean (SD), years 73.0 (5.0) 73.1 (5.1)
Race, (n) % white (284) 89.0 (285) 88.5
Gender, (n) % male (147) 46.1 (145) 45.0
Education, (n) % any college (201) 63.0 (194) 60.3
Co-morbidity, mean number (SD) 2.0 (1.3) 2.0 (1.2)
Current Smokers, (n) % (17) 5.3 (20) 6.2
Cancer type, (n) %
  Breast (143) 44.8 (146) 45.3
   Prostate (131) 41.1 (130) 40.4
   Colorectal (45) 14.1 (46) 14.3
Years since diagnosis, mean (SD) 8.5 (2.7) 8.7 (2.7)
BMI, mean (SD) 29.1 (3.3) 29.2 (3.6)
SF-36 Physical Function, mean (SD) 75.9 (18.7) 75.6 (19.1)