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Table 1 The baseline characteristics of study population

From: The mediation effect of serum metabolites on the relationship between long-term smoking exposure and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Variable

Controls

Cases

Total

P-value

N

257

207

464

 

Age, year

52.7 (7.5)

58.8 (7.4)

55.4 (8.1)

< 0.001

Males, n (%)

91 (35.4)

89 (43.0)

180 (38.8)

0.116

BMI, kg/m2

24.9 (3.3)

24.1 (3.4)

24.5 (3.3)

0.016

Ever Smoker, n (%)

43 (16.7)

65 (31.4)

108 (23.3)

< 0.001

Smoking Index*, cigarette-years

560.4 (293.7)

743.1 (509.6)

670.4 (444.2)

0.033

Alcohol Drinker, n (%)

55 (21.4)

60 (29.0)

115 (24.8)

0.076

  1. The continuous and categorical variables are presented as mean and percentages, respectively
  2. BMI, body mass index
  3. Smoking index = the number of cigarettes smoked per day × the number of years of smoking
  4. *: just for ever smokers