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. 2013 Apr 11;13:19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2490-13-19

Table 1.

Determinants of Gleason score undergrading between biopsy and prostatectomy

 
Total
Cases
Controls
Univariate OR1 (95% CI)
p-value
Multi-adjusted OR1,2 (95% CI)
p-value
  (n = 371) (n = 95) (n = 276)        
Age at diagnosis years (in continuous )
 
 
 
1.04 (1.00-1.08)
0.049
1.04 (1.00-1.09)
0.038
Socioeconomic status
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  High
128
31
97
1.00
 
 
 
  Middle
155
43
112
1.20 (0.70-2.05)
0.502
 
 
  Low
82
20
62
1.01 (0.53-1.93)
0.977
 
 
  Unknown
6
1
5
0.63 (0.07-5.56)
0.674
 
 
Sector of care
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Private
235
48
187
1.00
 
 
 
  Public
136
47
89
2.06 (1.28-3.31)
0.003
 
 
PSA value
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  <10
242
63
179
1.00
 
 
 
  10-20
39
14
25
1.59 (0.78-3.25)
0.203
 
 
  >20
12
4
8
1.42 (0.41-4.88)
0.577
 
 
  Unknown
78
14
64
0.62 (0.33-1.19)
0.149
 
 
Clinical stage
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  T1-T2
272
61
211
1.00
 
1.00
 
  T3-T4
93
33
60
1.90 (1.14-3.17)
0.014
1.81 (1.06-3.10)
0.030
  Tx
6
1
5
0.69 (0.08-6.03)
0.739
0.58 (0.06-5.37)
0.628
Number of biopsy cores
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  ≤ 9
175
56
119
2.02 (1.24-3.28)
0.005
1.93 (1.16-3.22)
0.011
  10 +
185
35
150
1.00
 
1.00
 
  Unknown
11
4
7
2.45 (0.68-8.83)
0.171
2.65 (0.70-10.0)
0.151
Prostate volume cm3 (in continous)
 
 
 
0.99 (0.97-1.00)
0.031
 
 
Number of procedures performed by the biopsy operator
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  1-29
110
37
73
1.75 (1.07-2.87)
0.026
 
 
  30+
254
57
197
1.00
 
 
 
  Unknown
7
1
6
0.58 (0.07-4.88)
0.613
 
 
Delay between biopsy and prostatectomy days (in continous)       1.01 (1.00-1.01) 0.004 1.01 (1.00-1.01) 0.018

1) OR: Odds Ratio derived from logistic regression considering as cases patients whose biopsy Gleason score was lower than the prostatectomy Gleason score and as controls everybody else, 2) Simultaneously adjusted for age, pathological stage, number of biopsy cores and delay between the two procedures.