Table 2.
Sociodemographic data of patients
| Variable | Without PD |
With PD |
All patients | P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 570) n (%) | (n = 86) n (%) | |||
| Patients | ||||
| 30–80 years | 570 (86.89) | 86 (13.11) | 656 (100) | |
| Age range | ||||
| 30–40 years | 62 (10.88) | 3 (3.49) | 65 (9.91) | |
| 41–50 years | 101 (17.72) | 22 (25.58) | 123 (18.75) | |
| 51–60 years | 159 (27.89) | 26 (30.23) | 185 (28.20) | |
| 61–70 years | 158 (27.72) | 28 (32.56) | 186 (28.35) | |
| 71–80 years | 90 (15.79) | 7 (8.14) | 97 (14.79) | |
| Race | ||||
| White | 278 (48.77) | 37 (43.02) | 315 (48.02) | |
| Black | 92 (16.14) | 11 (12.79) | 103 (15.70) | .252 |
| Brown | 200 (35.09) | 38 (44.19) | 238 (36.28) | |
| Reason to seek urologic care | ||||
| Rectal examination | 303 (53.16) | 51 (59.30) | 354 (53.96) | |
| Penile curvature | 0 (0) | 2 (2.33) | 2 (0.30) | |
| Erectile dysfunction | 18 (3.16) | 6 (6.98) | 24 (3.66) | |
| Hardening of the penis | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| Others | 249 (43.68) | 27 (31.40) | 276 (42.07) | |
| Diabetes | ||||
| No | 450 (78.95) | 47 (54.65) | 497 (75.76) | |
| Yes | 95 (16.67) | 37 (43.02) | 132 (20.12) | <.001∗ |
| Do not know | 25 (4.39) | 2 (2.33) | 27 (4.12) | |
| Hypertension | ||||
| No | 188 (64.37) | 53 (61.63) | 428 (65.24) | |
| Yes | 375 (35.63) | 32 (37.21) | 220 (33.54) | |
| Do not know | 7 (1.23) | 1 (1.16) | 8 (1.22) | |
| Dyslipidemia | ||||
| No | 393 (68.95) | 57 (66.28) | 450 (68.60) | |
| Yes | 177 (31.05) | 29 (33.72) | 206 (31.40) | |
| Obesity | ||||
| No | 485 (85.09) | 63 (73.26) | 548 (83.54) | .006∗ |
| Yes | 85 (14.91) | 23 (26.74) | 108 (16.46) | |
| Smoking behavior | ||||
| Smoker | 66 (11.58) | 16 (18.60) | 82 (12.50) | |
| Nonsmoker | 294 (51.58) | 30 (34.88) | 324 (49.39) | |
| Exsmoker | 210 (36.84) | 40 (46.51) | 250 (38.11) | |
| Alcohol use | ||||
| No | 406 (71.23) | 69 (80.23) | 476 (72.31) | |
| Yes | 164 (28.77) | 17 (19.77) | 181 (27.59) | |
| Triglycerides | ||||
| <199 mg/dL | 466 (81.75) | 66 (76.74) | 532 (81.10) | |
| ≥200 mg/dL | 104 (18.25) | 20 (23.26) | 124 (18.90) | |
| Total cholesterol | ||||
| <239 mg/dL | 480 (84.21) | 74 (86.05) | 554 (84.45) | |
| ≥240 mg/dL | 90 (15.79) | 12 (13.95) | 102 (15.55) |
PD = Peyronie's disease.
∗
Chi-squared analysis.