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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022 Nov 2;31(11):2063–2069. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-22-0453

Table 3.

Distributions of Clinical and Screening Factors by Multivitamin Use at Baseline

Recency of Multivitamin Use at Baseline Cumulative Years of Multivitamin Use at Baseline


Never n=17,719 Former n=2,821 Current n=14,347 None n=17,719 <5 years n=5,502 ≥5 years n=11,666

Length of follow-up time on trial, mean yrs 5.2 5.2 5.2 5.2 5.2 5.2
Number of PSA per year of follow-up, mean (SD) 0.9 (0.3) 0.9 (0.3) 1.0 (0.3) 0.9 (0.3) 1.0 (0.3) 1.0 (0.3)
Number of DRE per year of follow-up, mean (SD) 0.8 (0.3) 0.8 (0.3) 0.8 (0.3) 0.8 (0.3) 0.8 (0.3) 0.8 (0.3)
Median PSA at first on-study biopsy 1 3.8 3.7 3.6 3.8 3.5 3.7
N (%) with on-study biopsy 2473 (14.0%) 390 (13.8%) 2150 (15.0%) 2473 (14.0%) 777 (14.1%) 1763 (15.1%)
N with PSA>4 or abnormal DRE at any point in study and no biopsy 1475 (8.3%) 246 (8.7%) 1233 (8.6%) 1475 (8.3%) 451 (8.2%) 1028 (8.8%)
N (%) with negative biopsy prior to SELECT 1563 (8.8%) 236 (8.4%) 1608 (11.2%) 1563 (8.8%) 482 (8.8%) 1362 (11.7%)
HR (95% CI) HR (95% CI)

Time to first biopsy on-study 2 Ref 0.99 (0.94–1.05) 1.10 (1.06–1.13) Ref 1.02 (0.98–1.06) 1.11 (1.07–1.14)
1

Most recent recorded PSA at the time of first recorded biopsy, for both cases and non-cases. For cases with no recorded biopsy, diagnosis date is used.

2

Hazard ratios adjusted for age, family history of prostate cancer, PSA and DRE (longitudinal)