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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2015 Apr 30;121(17):2883–2891. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29438

Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of CLL patients with hypogammaglobulinemia that is subdivided by three terciles

Characteristic Lower Tercile
IgG <585
mg/dL
(%) or [range]
Middle Tercile
IgG: 585–687
mg/dL
(%) or [range]
Upper Tercile
IgG: 688–756
mg/dL
(%) or [range]
p-
value
Number of patients 127 127 128
Median serum IgG, mg/dL 500 [111–584] 623 [585–687] 711 [688–755]
Median age, years 62 [39–90] 62 [41–92] 62 [37–94] 0.8
Male 96 (76) 87 (68) 85 (66) 0.24
Rai Stage Low risk (0) 52 (42) 63 (50) 72 (57) 0.01
Intermediate risk (I–II) 54 (43) 56 (44) 50 (39)
High risk (III–IV) 19 (15) 8 (6) 5 (4)
IGHV mutation Mutated 40 (47) 52 (58) 48 (56) 0.32
Unmutated 45 (53) 38 (42) 38 (44)
ZAP-70 Negative (<20%) 54 (54) 59 (60) 72 (68) 0.13
Positive (≥20%) 45 (45) 40 (40) 34 (32)
CD38 Negative (<30%) 75 (65) 79 (67) 92 (78) 0.06
Positive (≥30%) 41 (35) 39 (33) 26 (22)
CD49d Negative (<30%) 34 (44) 47 (57) 54 (68) 0.01
Positive (≥30%) 43 (56) 35 (43) 25 (32)
FISH deletion13q 35 (35) 46 (46) 43 (44) 0.06
normal 19 (19) 19 (19) 28 (29)
+12 29 (29) 23 (23) 9 (9)
deletion11q 12 (12) 7 (7) 11 (11)
deletion17p 4 (4) 2 (2) 5 (5)