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. 2013 Jun 18;346:f3406. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3406

Table 2.

 Socioeconomic factors and comorbidity for cases and matched controls

Gleason score of cancer
Overall 2-6 7 8-10
Cases (n=26 735) Controls (n=133 671) Cases (n=11 985) Controls (n=59 838) Cases (n=9285) Controls (n=46 425) Cases (n=5482) Controls (n=27 408)
Family status
Married 18 596 (69.6) 88 399 (66.1) 8620 (72.0) 40 232 (67.2) 6373 (68.6) 30 672 (66.1) 3603 (65.7) 17 495 (63.8)
Single, with children 5706 (21.3) 29 539 (22.1) 2349 (19.6) 12 677 (21.2) 2062 (22.2) 10 195 (22.0) 1295 (23.6) 6667 (24.3)
Single, no children 2433 (9.1) 15 733 (11.8) 999 (8.3) 6929 (11.6) 850 (9.2) 5558 (12.0) 584 (10.7) 3246 (11.8)
Highest attained level of education
High 6189 (23.1) 28 189 (21.1) 3101 (25.9) 13 702 (22.9) 2105 (22.7) 9626 (20.7) 983 (17.9) 4861 (17.7)
Middle 10 097 (37.8) 49 846 (37.3) 4756 (39.7) 23 128 (38.7) 3470 (37.4) 17 157 (37.0) 1871 (34.1) 9561 (34.9)
Low or missing data 10 449 (39.1) 55 636 (41.6) 4111 (34.3) 23 008 (38.5) 3710 (40.0) 19 642 (42.3) 2628 (47.9) 12 986 (47.4)
Charlson comorbidity index
0 17 929 (67.1) 87 616 (65.5) 8542 (71.4) 41 830 (69.9) 6235 (67.2) 29 852 (64.3) 3152 (57.5) 15 934 (58.1)
1 4562 (17.1) 23 027 (17.2) 1839 (15.4) 9495 (15.9) 1624 (17.5) 8226 (17.7) 1099 (20.0) 5306 (19.4)
2 2471 (9.2) 12 496 (9.3) 987 (8.2) 4792 (8.0) 823 (8.9) 4481 (9.7) 661 (12.1) 3223 (11.8)
≥3 1773 (6.6) 10 532 (7.9) 600 (5.0) 3721 (6.2) 603 (6.5) 3866 (8.3) 570 (10.4) 2945 (10.7)

Data are number or number (%) of individuals unless stated otherwise.