Table 1.
Baseline characteristics (in percent) of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) cases and subjects without NHL, the Multiethnic Cohort Study, 1993- 2003.
| Men |
Women |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Cases (n = 514) |
Non-Cases (n = 86,564) |
Cases (n = 425) |
Non-Cases (n = 105,547) |
|
| Age at cohort entry |
< 50 | 5 | 16 | 6 | 17 |
| 50 – 54 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 15 | |
| 55 – 59 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 16 | |
| 60 – 64 | 20 | 17 | 18 | 17 | |
| 65 – 69 | 25 | 18 | 23 | 17 | |
| 70 – 74 | 24 | 16 | 25 | 15 | |
| 75 + | 7 | 3 | 5 | 3 | |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian | 29 | 25 | 29 | 24 |
| African-American | 14 | 14 | 20 | 20 | |
| Native Hawaiian | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | |
| Japanese-American | 27 | 30 | 23 | 27 | |
| Latinos | 24 | 24 | 23 | 21 | |
| Education (years)* |
≤ 12 | 41 | 42 | 52 | 46 |
| 13-16 | 47 | 44 | 36 | 41 | |
| > 16 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 12 | |
| Alcohol (serving/day)* |
No alcohol | 50 | 52 | 77 | 43 |
| ≤ 1 | 22 | 21 | 16 | 17 | |
| > 1 | 27 | 29 | 8 | 21 | |
| NHL group* | DLBCL | 33 | 34 | ||
| FL | 11 | 21 | |||
| SLL/CLL | 24 | 18 | |||
| Marginal | 8 | 9 | |||
| T-Cell | 7 | 5 | |||
| Other | 17 | 13 | |||
*
Might not add up to 100% due to missing values.