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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2013 Jul 19;24(10):1865–1873. doi: 10.1007/s10552-013-0263-4

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of study participants (n = 298,468)

Total cohort Any aspirin
users
Any nonaspirin
NSAID users
Neither Aspirin
only
Nonaspirin
NSAIDs only
Both aspirin and
nonaspirin NSAIDs
Either aspirin,
nonaspirin NSAIDs,
or both
n = 298,468
%
n = 218,372
%
n = 168,414
%
n = 40,173
%
n = 89,881
%
n = 39,923
%
n = 128,491
%
n = 258,295
Age, years, mean (SD) 62.8 (5.3) 62.8 (5.3) 62.2 (5.4) 63.6 (5.1) 63.5 (5.1) 62.1 (5.4) 62.3 (5.4) 62.7 (5.3)
Male 58.4 62.6 55.7 53.3 65.8 40.4 60.4 59.2
Race
 White 92.5 93.4 93.0 88.9 93.3 91.4 93.5 93.1
 Black 3.3 2.7 3.1 5.4 2.7 4.5 2.7 3.0
 Others 4.2 3.9 3.9 5.7 4.0 4.1 3.8 3.9
Married 68.2 70.2 68.6 62.9 69.8 62.4 70.5 69.0
First-degree relative diagnosed
 with any cancer
49.4 49.2 50.3 48.5 48.2 51.4 50.0 49.6
Rigorous physical activity
 Never or rarely 16.8 15.6 16.3 20.7 16.1 19.7 15.2 16.2
 1–3 times per month 13.3 13.3 13.8 12.6 12.6 13.7 13.8 13.4
 1–2 times per week 21.4 21.8 21.9 19.7 21.3 21.1 22.1 21.7
 3–4 times per week 27.6 28.2 28.0 25.5 27.7 26.3 28.6 27.9
 ≥5 times per week 20.1 20.3 19.3 20.4 21.5 18.4 19.6 20.0
 Unknown 0.8 0.8 0.7 1.1 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.8
College graduate and postgraduate 64.4 66.0 66.1 58.4 63.8 61.4 67.6 65.3
Tobacco smoking
 Never 35.9 35.0 35.5 38.9 35.3 37.9 34.7 35.4
 Former 49.8 50.9 50.6 46.3 49.9 47.4 51.7 50.4
 Current 11.0 10.8 10.6 11.4 11.5 11.6 10.3 10.9
 Unknown 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.3 3.1 3.3 3.3
Self-reported history of
 hypertension
39.0 39.6 38.7 38.0 40.2 37.0 39.2 39.2
Self-reported history of diabetes 8.4 8.4 8.1 9.4 8.7 7.8 8.2 8.3
Current body mass index, Kg/m2
 (SD)
26.9 (5.0) 26.9 (4.9) 27.2 (5.1) 26.7 (5.3) 26.6 (4.7) 27.3 (5.6) 27.2 (5.0) 27.0 (5.0)
Alcohol, gram per day, mean (SD) 13.1 (36.0) 13.8 (36.3) 12.8 (34.5) 11.6 (37.6) 14.2 (38.1) 10.8 (32.7) 13.4 (35.0) 13.3 (35.8)
Total dietary fiber, gram, mean
 (SD)
19.7 (10.6) 19.8 (10.5) 19.5 (10.4) 20.1 (11.7) 19.9 (10.4) 18.8 (10.0) 19.7 (10.5) 19.6 (10.4)