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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study population at study entry

From: Components of metabolic syndrome in patients with multiple myeloma and smoldering multiple myeloma

Parameter

Multiple myeloma

Smoldering multiple myeloma

Controls

P-value

Number

105

48

138

 

Age, yr (SD)

64.5 (12.5)

67.8 (9.4)

64.5 (4.8)

.071

Male (%)

54 (51.4)

27 (56.3)

80 (57.2)

.653

BMI, kg/m2 (SD)

27.6 (4.8)

26.2 (4.1)

27.2 (3.8)

.483

Diabetes (%)

28 (26.5)a

12 (25.0)a

11 (8.0)b

<.001

Hypertension (%)

56 (53.3)ab

29 (60.4)a

57 (41.3)b

.034

Dyslipidemia (%)

43 (41.3)ab

26 (54.2)a

44 (31.9)b

.020

IHD (%)

13 (12.5)

7 (14.6)

11 (6.5)

.153

  1. SD standard deviation, BMI body mass index, IHD ischemic heart disease
  2. a and bUsed to discriminate within-group difference
  3. aStatistically different fromb
  4. abIntermediate group which does not differ from either a or b