TABLE 3.
Socioeconomic variables and comorbidities of patients and controls
| Meningioma n = 2070 |
Controls, n = 10,312 |
p‐value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Educational level, at index year, n (%) | |||
| Basic to high‐school | 1375 (69.2) | 7019 (69.2) | 0.98 |
| Higher education | 612 (30.8) | 3131 (30.8) | |
| Missing | 83 | 162 | |
| Disposable income, n (%) | 180 k (132 k, | 199 k (137 k, | <0.001 |
| Median (Q1, Q3) | 256 k) | 277 k) | |
| Elixhauser comorbidities at index date, n (%) | |||
| 0 | 1067 (51.5) | 7126 (69.1) | <0.001 |
| 1 | 523 (25.3) | 1671 (16.2) | |
| 2 | 254 (12.3) | 754 (7.3) | |
| 3 or more | 226 (10.9) | 761 (7.4) | |