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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2011 Nov 1;5(3):365–373. doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-11-0243

Table 1.

Demographic and Clinic Characteristics

Characteristics Number of COPD Cases (%)
Number of Controls (%) (Without COPD and Lung Cancer) N=893 P-valuea P-valueb P-valuec P-valued
With Lung Cancer N=432 Without Lung Cancer N=188 Total N=620
Sex
    Male 240(55.56%) 82(43.62%) 322(51.94%) 348(38.97%) 0.008 <0.001 0.271 <0.001
    Female 192(44.44%) 106(56.38%) 298(48.06%) 545(61.03%)

Age± SD (year) 66.99± 8.54 67.27± 9.67 67.08± 8.89 64.97± 9.97 0.731 <0.001 0.004 <0.001

Smoking Status
    Never 31(7.18%) 29(15.43%) 60(9.67%) 564(63.16%)
    Former 217(50.23%) 94(50.00%) 311(50.16%) 195(21.84%) 0.004 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
    Current 184(42.59%) 65(34.57%) 249(40.16%) 134(15.01%)

Pack-years
    0 & never smoker 31 (7.18%) 33 (17.55%) 64 (10.32%) 570 (63.83%)
    1-20 29 (6.71%) 15 (7.98%) 44 (7.10%) 32 (3.58%) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001
    21-40 75 (17.36%) 43 (22.87%) 118 (19.03%) 121 (13.55%)
    > 40 297 (68.75%) 97 (51.60%) 394 (63.55%) 170 (19.04%)
a

P-value for the comparison between COPD cases with lung cancer and COPD cases without lung cancer.

b

P-value for the comparison between COPD cases with lung cancer and controls.

c

P-value for the comparison between COPD cases without lung cancer and controls.

d

P-value for the comparison between all COPD cases and controls.