Table 1. Distribution of study participant characteristics among pancreatic cancer cases and controls.
| Participant’s characteristics | Categories | Number of participants | Cases N (%) |
Controls N (%) |
P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Female | 239 | 46 (38.02) | 193 (46.06) | |
| Male | 301 | 75 (61.98) | 226 (53.94) | 0.11 | |
| Age* | <68y | 284 | 68 (56.20) | 216 (51.55) | |
| >68y | 256 | 53 (43.80) | 203 (48.45) | 0.41 | |
| Smoking status | Never | 237 | 42 (34.71) | 195 (46.54) | |
| Former | 231 | 57 (47.11) | 174 (41.53) | ||
| Current | 72 | 22 (18.18) | 50 (11.93) | 0.01 | |
| Alcohol consumption (Servings/week) | 0 | 243 | 67 (62.62) | 176 (42.62) | |
| 1–6 | 189 | 28 (26.17) | 161 (38.98) | ||
| ≥7 | 88 | 12 (11.21) | 76 (18.40) | 0.01 | |
| Diabetic status | No | 483 | 96 (79.34) | 387 (92.36) | |
| Yes | 57 | 25 (20.66) | 32 (7.64) | <0.01 | |
| Education | Less than College | 229 | 63 (52.07) | 166 (39.62) | |
| College Educated | 311 | 58 (47.93) | 253 (60.38) | <0.01 |
* Age was stratified at median