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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 Mar;23(3):402–408. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-13-0747

Table 1.

Descriptive participant characteristics by biobanking

Biobanking (Yes) Biobanking (No) P value

No. of participants n= 18,107 (94.25%) n= 1105 (5.75%)
Mean age (sd)

18,107 1105
40.00 (14.20) 43.03 (16.73) <0.01*

Gender

 Male 3820 (93.10) 283 (6.90)
 Female 14,287 (94.56) 822 (5.44) <0.01

Nativity status

 United States 4847 (93.30) 348 (6.70)
 Mexico 13,232 (94.6) 755 (5.40) <0.01

Years living in United States

 <5 2597 (94.26) 158 (5.74)
 6–10 2339 (94.39) 139 (5.61)
 ≥11 13,171 (94.22) 808 (3.12) 0.94

Educational attainment

 ≤8 years 6065 (93.29) 436 (6.71)
 9–11 years 6108 (94.86) 331 (5.14)
 High school or more 5916 (94.60) 338 (5.40) <0.01

Marital status

 Married 13,832 (94.49) 807 (5.51)
 Not married 4242 (93.46) 297 (6.54) <0.01

Health insurance

 No 9040 (94.40) 536 (5.60)
 Yes 6651 (94.85) 361 (5.15) 0.21

Mean no. of cigarettes/day (sd)

8.98 (10.00) 10.02 (12.32) <0.01*

Smoking status

 Never 13,069 (94.14) 813 (5.86)
 Current smoker 2259 (94.64) 128 (5.86)
 Former smoker 2556 (94.53) 148 (5.47) 0.51

Alcohol use

 Never 11909 (94.40) 706 (5.60)
 Current 3982 (93.87) 260 (6.13)
 Former 1771 (94.30) 107 (5.70) 0.43

BMI (self-reported)

 Normal weight (≤24.9) 3958 (93.28) 285 (6.72)
 Overweight (25.0–29.9) 6125 (94.32) 369 (5.68)
 Obese (≥30) 8023 (94.68) 451 (5.32) <0.01

Physical activity

 Active 5377 (94.33) 323 (5.67)
 Not active 12437 (94.24) 760 (5.76) 0.80

Acculturation

 Low acculturation 10,387 (94.33) 624 (5.67)
 Bicultural 5571 (94.70) 312 (5.30)
 High acculturation 1956 (92.79) 152 (7.21) <0.01

sd, standard deviation.

*

Student’s t test.

Chi-square test.