. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2019 Jun 26;19(11):699–708.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.clml.2019.06.009

Table 2.

Racial Difference in Baseline Characteristics at Diagnosis of DLBCL and FL in Georgia, 2001 to 2015

	DLBCL (n =7701)								FL (n = 4183)
	White^a (n = 5951)		Black (n = 1592)		Other^b (n = 158)		P Value		White^a (n = 3656)		Black (n = 479)		Other^b (n = 48)		P Value
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	B vs. W	O vs. W
Age, y
18–59	1867	24.24	1004	63.07	66	41.77	<.0001	.0055	1323	36.19	263	54.91	26	54.17	<.0001	.0101
≤60	4084	68.63	588	36.93	92	58.23			2333	63.81	216	45.09	22	45.83
Gender
Female	2697	45.32	699	43.91	77	48.73	.3141	.3949	1877	51.34	227	47.39	17	35.42	.1040	.0283
Male	3254	54.68	893	56.09	81	51.27			1779	48.66	252	52.61	31	64.58
Stage
I/II	2945	51.86	685	44.48	86	54.78	<.0001	.4702	1692	49.02	214	46.93	21	44.65	.4024	.6504
III/IV	2734	48.14	855	55.52	71	45.22			1760	50.98	242	53.07	25	54.35
Missing	272		52		1				204		23		2
Lymph site
Extranodal	2365	39.87	566	35.62	72	45.86	.0020	.1304	650	17.82	93	19.46	4	8.33	.3808	.0871
Nodal	3567	60.13	1023	64.38	85	54.14			2998	82.18	385	80.54	44	91.67
Missing	19		3		1				8		1		0
B symptoms
Yes	1350	33.38	531	44.40	28	25.69	<.0001	.0923	516	21.43	95	28.53	5	14.71	.0035	.3420
No	2694	66.62	665	55.60	81	74.31			1892	78.57	238	71.47	29	85.29
Missing	1907		396		49				1248		146		14

Information on stage, extranodal disease, and B symptoms was missing in 4.2%, 0.3%, and 30.5% of cases with DLBCL, and was missing in 5.5%, 0.2%, and 33.7% of cases with FL. Abbreviations: B = black; DLBCL = diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; FL = follicular lymphoma; O = other; W = white.

Reference group.

Other includes American Indian/Alaska Native and Asian or Pacific Islander.