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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2016 Jul 19;19(4):390–394. doi: 10.1038/pcan.2016.28

Table 2. Association between weight change and patient characteristics.

Weight change is recorded as Least Square (LS) means and standard errors (SE) from linear regression model.

Baseline
Demographics
Diagnosed within 1 Year of enrollment
(N = 442)
Diagnosed within 6 Months of enrollment
(N = 242)

Mean
Baseline
Weight
(lb)
Weight change (lb)
from baseline to
year 1
P-value* Mean
Baseline
Weight
(lb)
Weight change (lb)
from baseline to
year 1
P-value*
Age

  < 55 194 0.26 (0.63) 190 −0.19 (1.02)
  55 ≤ Age < 65 200 0.26 (0.48) 0.59 200 −0.53 (0.72) 0.94
  ≥ 65 189 −0.13 (0.46) 191 −0.53 (0.67)

Race

  African American 197 0.62 (0.91) 202 −0.37 (1.39)
  Caucasian 194 −0.19 (0.31) 0.67 195 −0.32 (0.47) 0.97
  Other 192 −0.04 (0.67) 194 −0.55 (0.92)

Body Mass Index

  Under / Normal 162 −0.40 (0.61) 162 −0.90 (0.90)
  Overweight 190 0.33 (0.49) 0.40 191 −0.75 (0.74) 0.41
  Obese 232 0.46 (0.61) 232 0.41 (0.90)

Smoking Status

  Current / Former 197 0.29 (0.48) 0.40 199 −0.08 (0.73) 0.24
  Never 192 −0.04 (0.45) 192 −0.74 (0.65)

Alcohol intake (prior year)

  1+ drink per month 196 0.47 (0.40) 0.18 197 0.21 (0.60) 0.09
  <1 per month 188 −0.21 (0.57) 186 −1.03 (0.84)

Family history of PCa

  Yes 198 −0.07 (0.50) 0.36 198 −0.88 (0.76) 0.13
  No 193 0.33 (0.45) 194 0.05 (0.65)
*

P-value from Type 3 Test, which tests the significance of each variable in the model, given all other variables in the model. Regression models are adjusted for baseline weight.