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. 2021 May 5;37(7):2177–2186. doi: 10.1007/s00381-021-05165-0

Table 2.

Hazard ratios per additional year of age for individual tumour type

Overall Female Male
Unadjusted Adjusted* Unadjusted Adjusted§ Unadjusted Adjusted§
Tumour Median age (range) HR(95% CI) P value HR(95% CI) P value Median age (range) HR(95% CI) P value HR(95% CI) P value Median age (range) HR(95% CI) P value HR(95% CI) P value
Anaplastic astrocytoma 10.0 (0–19) 0.99 (0.96–1.01) 0.29 0.98 (0.96–1.01) 0.26 10.0 (0–10) 1.00 (0.96–1.04) 0.91 1.00 (0.96–1.04) 0.97 9.5 (0–19) 0.97 (0.93–1.01) 0.09 0.97 (0.93–1.01) 0.10
Ependymoma 6.0 (0–19) 0.95 (0.93–0.98) <0.01 0.95 (0.92–0.98) <0.01 5.0 (0–19) 0.96 (0.91–1.01) 0.07 0.96 (0.91–1.01) 0.08 6.0 (0–19) 0.95 (0.91–0.99) 0.01 0.95 (0.91–0.99) 0.01
Glioblastoma multiforme 11.0 (0–19) 0.99 (0.97–1.02) 0.59 0.99 (0.97–1.01) 0.50 10.0 (0–19) 0.99 (0.95–1.02) 0.41 0.99 (0.95–1.02) 0.43 12.0 (0–19) 1.00 (0.97–1.02) 0.86 0.99 (0.97–1.02) 0.69
Germinoma 13.0 (0–19) 0.94 (0.89–0.99) 0.02 0.95 (0.90–1.00) 0.05 11.0 (0–19) 0.82 (0.75–0.90) <0.01 0.82 (0.76–0.90) <0.01 14.0 (0–19) 1.06 (0.98–1.16) 0.17 1.06 (0.97–1.16) 0.17
Medulloblastoma 6.0 (0–19) 0.95 (0.93–0.98) <0.01 0.95 (0.93–0.97) <0.01 6.5 (0–19) 0.94 (0.91–0.98) <001 0.94 (0.91–0.98) <0.01 6.0 (0–19) 0.96 (0.93–0.99) <0.01 0.96 (0.93–0.99) <0.01
Pilocytic astrocytoma 8 (0–19) 0.99 (0.94–1.03) 0.50 0.99 (0.94–1.03) 0.54 8.0 (0–19) 0.93 (0.88–0.99) 0.04 0.93 (0.88–0.99) 0.04 8.0 (0–19) 1.04 (0.98–1.10) 0.23 1.04 (0.98–1.11) 0.22
sPNET 6.0 (0–19) 0.98 (0.95–1.00) 0.06 0.98 (0.95–1.00) 0.07 6.0 (0–19) 0.99 (0.95–1.03) 0.58 0.90 (0.93–1.03) 0.55 6.5 (0–19) 0.93 (0.93–0.99) 0.04 0.96 (0.93–1.00) 0.05

*Adjusted for year of diagnosis and sex genotype

§adjusted for year of diagnosis

HR hazard ratio, CI confidence intervals