Table 1 Baseline characteristics by cancer before and after propensity score (PS) matching
Characteristics | Before PS match | Before PS match | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cancer survivors | General population | p-value | Cancer survivors | General population | p-value | |
Mean ± SD or n (%) | Mean ± SD or n (%) | Mean ± SD or n (%) | Mean ± SD or n (%) | |||
n | 1279 | 36,822 | 1060 | 1060 | ||
Age (years) | 61.2 ± 12.7 | 49.6 ± 16.3 | < 0.0001 | 60.3 ± 12.4 | 60.2 ± 13.7 | 0.7586 |
Female | 818 (64.0) | 21,169 (57.5) | < 0.0001 | 685 (64.6) | 712 (67.2) | 0.2161 |
Education level | < 0.0001 | 0.9963 | ||||
≤ Elementary school | 552 (43.2) | 9715 (26.4) | 439 (41.4) | 440 (41.5) | ||
Middle school | 193 (15.1) | 3997 (10.9) | 159 (15.0) | 162 (15.3) | ||
High school | 327 (25.6) | 12,405 (33.7) | 277 (26.1) | 273 (25.8) | ||
≥ College/graduate school | 207 (16.2) | 10,705 (29.1) | 185 (17.5) | 185 (17.5) | ||
Residential region | 0.8639 | 0.5786 | ||||
Urban | 857 (67.0) | 24,757 (67.2) | 707 (66.7) | 719 (67.8) | ||
Rural | 422 (33.0) | 12,065 (32.8) | 353 (33.3) | 341 (32.2) | ||
Smoking | < 0.0001 | 0.5346 | ||||
Current-smokers | 110 (8.6) | 7954 (21.6) | 89 (8.4) | 88 (8.3) | ||
Former-smokers | 365 (28.5) | 7215 (19.6) | 291 (27.5) | 269 (25.4) | ||
Never | 804 (62.9) | 21,653 (58.8) | 680 (64.2) | 703 (66.3) | ||
Alcohol Consumption(per month) | < 0.0001 | 0.8469 | ||||
Never | 667 (52.2) | 10,520 (28.6) | 525 (49.5) | 543 (51.2) | ||
≤ 1 | 320 (25.0) | 10,512 (28.6) | 279 (26.3) | 264 (24.9) | ||
2–3 | 234 (18.3) | 13,139 (35.7) | 206 (19.4) | 206 (19.4) | ||
≥ 4 | 58 (4.5) | 2651 (7.2) | 50 (4.7) | 47 (4.4) | ||
Moderate physical activity | < 0.0001 | 0.8897 | ||||
Yes | 407 (31.8) | 14,260 (38.7) | 350 (33.0) | 347 (32.7) | ||
No | 872 (68.2) | 22,562 (61.3) | 710 (67.0) | 713 (67.3) | ||
Body mass index (kg/m2) | 23.4 ± 3.3 | 23.7 ± 3.4 | 0.0087 | 23.5 ± 3.3 | 23.5 ± 3.0 | 0.9754 |
Comorbidity, n (%) | ||||||
Hypertension | 518 (40.7) | 11,315 (30.9) | < 0.0001 | 422 (39.8) | 404 (38.1) | 0.4228 |
Diabetes | 188 (17.7) | 3419 (10.0) | < 0.0001 | 187 (17.6) | 169 (15.9) | 0.2956 |
Dyslipidemia | 135 (10.6) | 2432 (6.6) | < 0.0001 | 116 (10.9) | 119 (11.2) | 0.8356 |
Obesity | 381 (29.8) | 11,703 (32.0) | 0.1068 | 315 (29.7) | 311 (29.3) | 0.8490 |
Stroke | 23 (1.8) | 529 (1.4) | 0.2874 | 17 (1.6) | 17 (1.6) | 1.0000 |
Myocardial infarction | 53 (4.1) | 773 (2.1) | < 0.0001 | 45 (4.3) | 32 (3.0) | 0.1313 |
Perceived stress | ||||||
Yes | 337 (26.4) | 9867 (26.8) | 0.7222 | 271 (25.6) | 230 (21.7) | 0.0361 |
No | 942 (73.7) | 26,955 (73.2) | 789 (74.4) | 830 (78.3) | ||
Depressive symptoms | ||||||
Yes | 257 (20.1) | 5159 (14.0) | < 0.0001 | 208 (19.6) | 154 (14.5) | 0.0018 |
No | 1022 (79.9) | 31,663 (86.0) | 852 (80.4) | 906 (85.5) | ||
Suicidal ideation | < 0.0001 | |||||
Yes | 249 (19.5) | 5436 (14.8) | 199 (18.8) | 186 (17.6) | 0.4639 | |
No | 1030 (80.5) | 31,386 (85.2) | 861 (81.2) | 874 (82.5) | ||