Table 1. Characteristics of controls and cancer patients with and without deep vein thrombosis.
Abbreviations: DVT, deep vein thrombosis; BMI, body mass index.
| Controls (n = 100) % | Cancer (n = 321) % | Cancer DVT+ (n = 64) % | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (Years, mean ± SD) | 60±10 | 62±9 | 64±10 | p = 0.07 $ | |||
| Sex | |||||||
| Male | 57 | (57) | 150 | (46.7) | 35 | (54.7) | p = 0.14 ^ |
| Female | 43 | (43) | 171 | (53.3) | 29 | (45.3) | |
| Smoking habits | |||||||
| Yes | 53 | (53) | 156 | (48.6) | 37 | (57.8) | p = 0.35 ^ |
| No | 47 | (47) | 165 | (51.4) | 27 | (42.2) | |
| BMI (kg/m2, mean ± SD) | 24.5±6.8 | 25.3±7.3 | 26.4±8.3 | p = 0.25 $ | |||
| Metastasis | |||||||
| No | 181 | (56.4) | 29 | (45.3) | p = 0.10 ^ | ||
| Yes | 140 | (43.6) | 35 | (54.7) | |||
| Cancer type or site | |||||||
| Lung | 47 | (14.6) | 7 | (10.9) | p = 0.14 ^ | ||
| Breast | 53 | (16.5) | 6 | (9.4) | |||
| Gastrointestinal | 101 | (31.5) | 31 | (48.4) | |||
| Genitourinary | 41 | (12.8) | 6 | (9.4) | |||
| Hematologic | 34 | (10.6) | 8 | (12.5) | |||
| Other | 45 | (14) | 6 | (9.4) | |||
$Evaluated through analysis of variance (ANOVA).
^Evaluated through χ2 test.