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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 13.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Gastroenterol. 2018 Jun 5;113(6):906–912. doi: 10.1038/s41395-018-0087-7

Table 1.

Subject characteristics

Variable Group (n)
p-value
CP (n=1086) RAP (n=508) Control (n=1024) CP vs. control RAP vs. control CP vs. RAP
Mean age (±SD) 50.8 (14.7) 45.3 (15.5) 49.1 (14.2) 0.0072 <0.0001 <0.0001
Median age of pancreatitis symptom onset (IQR) 44.0 (32.0, 54.0) 40.2 (27.0, 51.0) N/A N/A N/A <0.001
Male sex 598 (55.1) 235 (46.3) 393 (38.3) <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
Racea N/A N/A N/A
White 819 (75.5) 445 (87.6) 714 (87.8)
Black 234 (21.6) 46 (9.1) 264 (9.1)
Other 32 (3.0) 16 (3.2) 45 (3.2)
Prior cholecystectomy 480 (44.2) 277 (54.5) 129 (12.6) <0.0001
Alcohol use category <0.0001 0.0282 <0.0001
Abstainer 182 (17.2) 124 (24.9) 175 (21.3)
Light 182 (17.2) 140 (28.1) 267 (32.5)
Moderate 178 (16.8) 114 (22.9) 181 (22.1)
Heavy 161 (15.2) 60 (12.0) 128 (15.6)
Very heavy 356 (33.6) 61 (12.2) 70 (8.5)
Smoking status <0.0001 0.041 <0.0001
Never smoker 269 (24.8) 225 (44.6) 510 (50.0)
Past smoker 282 (26.0) 160 (31.8) 263 (25.8)
Current smoker 532 (49.1) 119 (23.6) 247 (24.2)
Maximum BMI
Current BMI 24.7 (5.6) 27.1 (6.5) 28.5 (6.1) <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001
Past medical history
Diabetes mellitus 347 (32.0) 84 (16.5) 101 (9.9) <0.0001 0.0002 <0.0001
Renal disease or failure 66 (6.1) 24 (4.7) 18 (1.8) <0.0001 0.0008 0.2755
Heart disease 132 (12.2) 33 (6.5) 62 (6.1) <0.0001 0.7324 0.0005
Liver disease 95 (8.8) 19 (3.7) 28 (2.7) <0.0001 0.281 0.0003

Proportions account for missing data on some variables, and may not add up to 100.0 due to rounding CP chronic pancreatitis, RAP recurrent acute pancreatitis, BMI body-mass index, IQR interquartile range

aRace is not compared between groups since NAPS2-AA deliberately enrolled subjects from minority races