Table 1. Non-genetic characteristics of the entire French and North American populations.
| French population | USA population | |||||
| Controls | Cases | Controls | Cases | p | ||
| N | 297 | 1241 | 1257 | 1732 | ||
| Sex, men, n(%) | 110 (39.4%) | 415 (33.4%) | ≤0.06 | 543 (43.2%) | 750 (43.3%) | <0.96 |
| Age, m (sd)* | 69.2 (7.4) | 78.8 (7.5) | <0.0001 | 75.0 (5.5) | 80.3 (6.5) | <0.0001 |
| Smoking | ||||||
| Current, n(%) | 89 (30.1%) | 106 (8.6%) | <0.0001 | 27 (4.6%) | 98 (7.9%) | <0.005 |
| Never, n(%) | 163 (55.1%) | 770 (62.1%) | 251 (42.9%) | 455 (36.7%) | ||
| Past, n(%) | 44 (14.8%) | 364 (29.3%) | 307 (52.5%) | 686 (55.4%) | ||