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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2015 Oct 13;121(23):4212–4221. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29488

Table 1.

Characteristics of adult cancer survivors and non-cancer individuals, NHANES 1999–20101

Cancer (N=1,533) Non-Cancer (N=3,075) P value
Age (year), Mean (SD) N (%) 58.1 (0.6) 57.8 (0.4) 0.65
 20–39 162 (12.9) 331 (11.7) 0.85
 40–49 160 (13.8) 322 (14.3)
 50–59 232 (20.2) 467 (21.5)
 60–69 444 (27.0) 887 (26.1)
 70–79 535 (26.0) 1,068 (26.5)
Gender, N (%)
 Female 898 (65.6) 1,799 (64.7) 0.65
 Male 635 (34.5) 1,276 (35.3)
Race/Ethnicity, N (%)
 Non-Hispanic white 983 (83.4) 1,978 (84.6) 0.22
 Non-Hispanic black 284 (8.0) 420 (6.6)
 Other 266 (8.6) 677 (8.9)
Education, N (%)
 High school graduate or less 823 (45.3) 1,708 (46.2) 0.22
 Some college or college graduate 709 (54.7) 1,359 (53.8)
Family income to poverty ratio, N (%)
 <130% 384 (19.0) 785 (17.3) 0.08
 130%–299% 445 (24.4) 947 (29.4)
 300%–499% 291 (23.4) 578 (23.2)
 Over 500% 291 (25.4) 519 (23.4)
 Missing 122 (7.8) 246 (6.6)
Alcohol drinking, N (%)
 Drinkers 993 (69.5) 1,944 (68.0) 0.43
 Nondrinkers 478 (30.5) 973 (32.0)
Smoking, N (%)
 Current smokers 299 (20.8) 527 (17.2) <0.0001
 Former smokers 612 (38.8) 1,047 (32.3)
 Nonsmokers 621 (40.4) 1,499 (50.5)
BMI (kg/m2), Mean (SD) N (%) 28.9 (0.3) 28.9 (0.2) 0.88
 18.5 –24.9 400 (30.0) 776 (28.7) 0.65
 25–29.9 539 (34.2) 1,106 (36.0)
 ≥ 30 594 (35.8) 1,102 (35.3)
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Frequencies presented were weighted frequencies.