Table 1 Patients’ characteristics
From: The association between smoking and breast cancer characteristics and outcome
Population No. patients | All | Hx smokinga | Current Smokinga | Pack years | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(662) | Yes (173) | No (439) | P value | Yes (101) | No (508) | P value | ≥30 (66) | 0–29 (518) | P value | |
Median Age (range) | 61 (34–85) | 60 (36–83) | 60 (34–85) | 0.449 | 56 (36–75) | 61 (34–85) | <0.001 | 62 (43–83) | 60 (34–85) | 0.197 |
Ethnicity | ||||||||||
 Ashkenazi | 49.5% | 46.5% | 50.1% | 0.165 | 43.9% | 50.0% | 0.449 | 52.3% | 49.5% | 0.188 |
 Sephardic | 41.5% | 47.6% | 39.1% |  | 49.0% | 40.1% |  | 46.2% | 40.0% |  |
 Arab | 2.1% | 0.6% | 2.8% |  | 1.0% | 2.4% |  | 1.5% | 2.2% |  |
 Other | 7% | 5.3% | 8.0% |  | 6.1% | 7.5% |  | 0% | 8.3% |  |
 Family Hx of breast cancer (yes, %) | 39.7% | 38% | 40.3% | 0.608 | 42.4% | 39.3% | 0.564 | 38.5% | 40.4% | 0.764 |
 Postmenopausal (yes, %) | 78% | 76.7% | 77.4% | 0.914 | 64.4% | 79.7% | 0.002 | 85.1% | 76.4% | 0.122 |
 Hx of HRT usage | 21.8% | 23.4% | 22.2% | 0.746 | 21% | 22.8% | 0.793 | 29.2% | 21.7% | 0.206 |