Table 3.

Time between the diagnosis of lung cancer to the diagnosis of PE.

Median time between diagnosis of lung cancer to PE (months) [IQR]		p valuea
Suspected PE	6.0 [1.0–18.0]	0.20
Unsuspected PE	7.0 [4.0–17.5]
Recurrent VTE	4.0 [0.0–8.0]	0.04
Non-recurrent VTE	7.5 [2.0–20.0]
Proximal PE	6.0 [2.0–21.0]	0.99
Distal PE	7.0 [2.0–16.0]

IQR, interquartile range.

Value in bold denotes statistically significant differences.

^aWilcoxon rank-sum test.