Table 1.
Characteristics of subjects included in the study
| Characteristics | Control group N = 175 |
Pleural plaques N = 394 |
Malignant mesothelioma N = 277 |
Test | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male, N (%) | 119 (68.0) | 271 (68.8) | 202 (72.9) | 1.757a | 0.410 |
| Female, N (%) | 56 (32.0) | 123 (31.3) | 75 (27.1) | |||
| Age | Median (25%–75%) | 55.3 (48.6–63.7) | 54.9 (48.8–62.7) | 66.0 (59.0–73.0) | 151.666b | < 0.001 |
| Low, N (%) | 134 (76.6) | 278 (71.6) [6] | 43 (48.3) [188] | 26.891a | < 0.001 | |
| Asbestos exposure | Medium, N (%) | 13 (7.4) | 41 (10.6) | 24 (27.0) | ||
| High, N (%) | 28 (16.0) | 69 (17.8) | 22 (24.7) | |||
| Smoking | No, N (%) | 94 (53.7) | 194 (49.4) [1] | 150 (55.6) [7] | 2.640a | 0.267 |
| Yes, N (%) | 81 (46.3) | 199 (50.6) | 120 (44.4) |
number of missing data is presented in [] brackets
a
calculated using Fisher exact test
b
calculated using Kruskal-Wallis test