Table 2.
Demographic characteristics of the patients according to the presence of recurrence
| Variable | Total | Recurrence |
p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| absent | present | ||||
| Age, years | 34.3±6.1 | 34.33±6.8 | 34.25±5.07 | 0.959a | |
| BMI | 25.0±3.17 | 25.16±3.29 | 24.87±3.68 | 0.663 | |
| Educational status | 0.456b | ||||
| Illiterate | 6 (4.9) | 6 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Primary school | 25 (20.5) | 21 (84.0) | 4 (16.0) | ||
| Secondary school | 62 (50.8) | 53 (85.5) | 9 (14.5) | ||
| University or higher | 29 (23.8) | 22 (75.9) | 7 (24.1) | ||
| Smoking (yes) | 50 (41.0) | 41 (82.0) | 9 (18.0) | 0.805b | |
| Number of births | 0.036 b | ||||
| None | 16 (13.1) | 13 (81.3) | 3 (18.8) | ||
| Single | 40 (32.8) | 36 (90.0) | 4 (10.0) | ||
| 2 or more | 66 (54.1) | 53 (80.3) | 13 (19.7) | ||
| Lactation | 0.900b | ||||
| None | 16 (13.1) | 13 (81.3) | 3 (18.8) | ||
| Less than 18 months | 48 (39.3) | 41 (85.4) | 7 (14.6) | ||
| More than 18 months | 58 (47.5) | 48 (82.8) | 10 (17.2) | ||
| Menstruation | 0.307b | ||||
| No menstruation | 10 (8.2) | 10 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Regular | 83 (68.0) | 69 (83.1) | 14 (16.9) | ||
| Irregular | 29 (23.8) | 23 (79.3) | 6 (20.7) | ||
| Family history (yes) | 15 (12.3) | 12 (80.0) | 3 (20.0) | 0.711b | |
Data are presented as the mean ± SD or n (%).
a
t-test.
b
χ2 test. Bold values are statistically significant at p < 0.05.