Table 1.
Characteristics of Cervical Cancer Patients and Controls in Eastern Chinese Population Used for the Association Study
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Patients (n=471) |
Controls (n=600) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | No. | (%) | No. | (%) | p |
| Age at diagnosis, year | |||||
| <38 | 112 | 23.78 | 177 | 29.50 | |
| 38–44 | 136 | 28.87 | 126 | 21.00 | |
| 45–51 | 112 | 23.78 | 148 | 24.67 | |
| ≥52 | 111 | 23.57 | 149 | 24.83 | 0.647 |
| Body Mass Index (BMI) | |||||
| ≤20 | 115 | 24.41 | 97 | 16.16 | |
| 20–28 | 336 | 71.34 | 436 | 72.67 | |
| ≥28 | 20 | 4.25 | 67 | 11.17 | 0.002 |
| Family History of Cancer | |||||
| Positive | 37 | 7.86 | 44 | 7.33 | |
| Negative | 434 | 92.14 | 556 | 92.67 | 0.743 |
| Stage | |||||
| 0 | 79 | 16.77 | |||
| I | 136 | 28.87 | |||
| II | 183 | 38.86 | |||
| III | 68 | 14.44 | |||
| IV | 5 | 1.06 | |||
| Tumor Grade | |||||
| Low | 43 | 9.13 | |||
| Intermediate | 216 | 45.86 | |||
| High | 132 | 28.02 | |||
| Unknown | 80 | 16.99 | |||
| Histological type | |||||
| Squamous cell carcinoma | 359 | 76.22 | |||
| Adenocarcinoma | 25 | 5.31 | |||
| Adenosquamous carcinoma | 7 | 1.48 | |||
| Carcinoma in situ | 80 | 16.99 | |||
| HPV infection status | |||||
| Positive | 395 | 83.86 | |||
| Negative | 76 | 16.14 | |||
HPV, human papillomavirus.