TABLE 2. Probability values for growth rate and pattern associations for intracranial meningiomas^*.

Variable	Relative Growth Rate (faster growth rate)	Growth Pattern (presence of stuttering growth pattern)
no. of patients	134	128
patient
age	0.6237	0.8697
sex	0.0466	0.1244
family history	0.5873	0.5246
duration of FU	†	0.0123
disease severity  age at onset	0.0144	0.6785
tumor
location‡	0.1136	0.3808
T2 hyperintensity	0.8854	0.2913§
peritumoral cyst	0.9408	0.9619
peritumoral edema	0.4977	0.4922

^*FU = follow-up.

^†Not examined for association with growth rate because it was used in the calculation of growth rate.

^‡Twenty tumors in the 5 locations with fewer than 10 tumors were excluded from analysis. Thus, the location variable in the analysis includes 5 categories.

^§The p value was calculated from the Fisher exact test, because the generalized mixed model did not converge.