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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 10.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2011 Jan 10;117(13):2863–2872. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25858

Table 2.

Distribution of Selected Variables among Patients and Controls

Variable Cases, n (%) (N = 863) Controls, n (%) (N = 876) ORa (95% CI) P value
Age at diagnosis
 <50 111 (12.9) 119 (13.6) 1.00
 51–60 254 (29.4) 275 (31.4) 0.99 (0.73–1.35) 0.956
 61–70 322 (37.3) 309 (35.3) 1.13 (0.84–1.53) 0.427
 >70 176 (20.4) 173 (19.7) 1.11 (0.79–1.54) 0.552
Sex
 Female 342 (39.6) 355 (40.5) 1.00
 Male 521 (60.4) 521 (59.5) 1.05 (0.87–1.27) 0.611
Family history of cancerb
 No 306 (35.7) 406 (46.6) 1.00
 Yes 550 (64.3) 465 (53.4) 1.59 (1.31–1.93) <0.001
History of diabetes
 No 663 (76.8) 783 (89.4) 1.00
 Yes 200 (23.2) 93 (10.6) 2.58 (1.97–3.36) <0.001
Smoking status
 Non-smoker 363 (42.1) 457 (52.2) 1.00
 Smoker 500 (57.9) 419 (47.8) 1.49 (1.23–1.80) <0.001
BMI (kg/m2)c
 <25.0 382 (50.5) 425 (62.4) 1.00
 25.0–30.0 285 (37.6) 219 (32.2) 1.45 (1.16–1.81) 0.001
 >30.0 90 (11.9) 37 (5.4) 2.71 (1.80–4.07) <0.001
a

Crude odds ratio.

b

Missing value from 7 patients and 5 controls.

c

Information was available for 757 cases and 681 controls recruited after 2004.