Table 1.
Characteristics of the population.
| Cases | Controls |
p-Value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | ||
| SEX | |||||
| Male | 523 | 59.8 | 1496 | 72.9 | <0.0001 |
| Female | 351 | 40.2 | 557 | 27.1 | |
| AGE | |||||
| <50 | 150 | 17.2 | 367 | 17.9 | 0.7 |
| 50–59 | 270 | 30.9 | 636 | 31.0 | |
| 60–69 | 280 | 32.0 | 677 | 33.0 | |
| 70+ | 174 | 19.9 | 373 | 19.9 | |
| COUNTRY | |||||
| Romania | 73 | 8.4 | 177 | 8.6 | <0.0001 |
| Poland | 75 | 8.6 | 466 | 22.7 | |
| Russia | 260 | 29.8 | 797 | 38.8 | |
| Czech Republic | 466 | 53.3 | 613 | 29.9 | |
| BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) | |||||
| <25 | 248 | 28.5 | 779 | 38.2 | <0.0001 |
| 25+ | 623 | 71.5 | 1261 | 61.8 | |
| HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE | |||||
| No | 483 | 55.3 | 1272 | 62.0 | 0.0008 |
| Yes | 390 | 44.7 | 780 | 38.0 | |
| ALCOHOL INTAKE (g/DAY, QUARTILES) | |||||
| 0–518 | 231 | 31.7 | 429 | 23.8 | <0.0001 |
| 519–1695 | 183 | 25.1 | 447 | 24.8 | |
| 1696–4229 | 170 | 23.3 | 462 | 25.6 | |
| 4230+ | 145 | 19.9 | 468 | 25.9 | |
| TOBACCO (PACK-YEARS) | |||||
| None | 409 | 46.8 | 729 | 35.5 | <0.0001 |
| 1–19 | 192 | 22.0 | 512 | 24.9 | |
| 20+ | 273 | 31.2 | 812 | 39.6 | |
p-Values by chi-square testing.