TABLE 1.

Characteristics of 247 controls in the placebo arm of PCPT by the prevalence and extent of inflammation in prostate biopsy cores

	Prostate biopsy cores with inflammation
	Overall	None	Anya	Some	All
N	247	55	192	127	65
Mean age, y	64	63	65	64	65
White, %	83.4	85.5	82.8	82.7	83.1
Smoking status, %
Current	5.3	5.4	5.2	4.7	6.2
Former	62.4	65.5	61.5	60.6	63.1
Never	32.4	29.1	33.3	34.7	30.8
Attained education, %
High school or lower	18.6	10.9	20.8	20.5	21.5
Some college, college graduate	46.2	61.8	41.7	41.7	41.5
Graduate school	35.2	27.3	37.5	37.8	36.9
Mean BMI, kg/m2	27.5	27.8	27.4	27.3	27.7
Mean waist circumference, cm	102	102	102	102	103
Activity level, %
Sedentary or light	55.9	49.9	57.8	58.3	56.9
Moderate or active	44.1	50.9	42.2	41.7	43.1
History of diabetes, %	8.9	12.7	7.8	8.7	6.2
Mean cholesterol concentration, mg/dL	205	206	204	204	205
Mean alcohol intake, g/d	7.7	9.1	7.3	7.1	7.5
Mean red meat intake, g/d	0.65	0.58	0.65	0.66	0.64
Family history of prostate cancer, %	17.8	16.4	18.2	17.3	20.0
Mean baseline PSA concentration, ng/mL	1.17	0.88	1.26	1.21	1.35
Mean biopsy PSA concentration, ng/mL	1.97	1.24	2.17	1.53	3.42

^aSome or all cores inflamed.