From: Sex-specific clustering of metabolic risk factors and cancer risk: a longitudinal study in Iran
Variables | Men | Women | ||||
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Non-cancer n = 3797 | Cancer n = 132 | P value | Non-cancer n = 4531 | Cancer n = 133 | *P value | |
Age (years) | 47.8(13.0) | 59.4(11.5) | < 0.001 | 46.3(11.6) | 52.1(12.0) | <0.001 |
BMI (kg/ m2) | 26.2(3.9) | 25.9(3.9) | 0.451 | 28.6(4.7) | 28.6(5.1) | 0.935 |
FPG (mmol/L) | 5.5(1.7) | 5.8(2.0) | 0.167 | 5.6(2.1) | 5.7(1.9) | 0.668 |
TC (mmol/L) | 5.3(1.1) | 5.3(1.1) | 0.698 | 5.6(1.2) | 5.8(1.1) | 0.063 |
SBP (mmHg) | 121.4(19.1) | 131.9(19.8) | < 0.001 | 121.4(20.4) | 126.8(22.1) | 0.003 |
DBP (mmHg) | 78.2(11.2) | 79.9(11.6) | 0.083 | 78.8(10.8) | 79.6(12.0) | 0.390 |
Education | ||||||
 Level 1 (0–8 years) | 29.4(76.5) | 99(75.0) | < 0.001 | 3477(76.7) | 91(68.4) | 0.010 |
 Level 2 (9–11 years) | 672(17.7) | 12(9.1) | 340(7.5) | 8(6.0) | ||
 Level 3 (> 12 years) | 221(5.8) | 21(15.9) | 714(15.8) | 34(25.6) | ||
Low physical activity | 2758(72.6) | 92(69.7) | 0.257 | 3220(71.1) | 93(69.9) | 0.420 |
Smoking | ||||||
 Never | 1460(38.5) | 58(43.9) | 0.063 | 3377(74.5) | 100(75.2) | 0.224 |
 Past | 622(16.4) | 29(22.0) | 107(2.4) | 6(4.5) | ||
 Passive | 487(12.8) | 15(11.4) | 824(18.2) | 24(18.0) | ||
 Current | 1228(32.3) | 30(22.7) |  | 223(4.9) | 3(2.3) |  |