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Table 1 General characteristics of study participants

From: Association between healthy lifestyle score and breast cancer

 

Groups

Healthy Lifestyle Score

Cases n = 350

Controls n = 700

P*

1 n = 185

2 n = 455

3 n = 410

P*

Age (year)

65 ± 11

61 ± 10

<  0.001

64 ± 11

62 ± 10

62 ± 11

0.065

Residing in Urban Region

126 (36)

252 (36)

0.964

44 (24)

150 (33)

184 (45)

< 0.001

Married

262 (75)

616 (88)

<  0.001

153 (83)

382 (84)

340 (83)

0.650

Educated

59 (17)

203 (29)

<  0.001

27 (15)

100 (22)

135 (33)

< 0.001

Family History of BC

31 (9)

21 (3)

< 0.001

16 (9)

22 (5)

16 (4)

0.079

Smoker

59 (17)

91 (13)

0.055

86 (47)

63 (14)

0

< 0.001

Post-menopause

308 (88)

539 (77)

<  0.001

151 (82)

368 (81)

328 (80)

0.930

BMI (kg/m2)

22 ± 5

26 ± 5

<  0.001

3 ± 5

24 ± 5

25 ± 5

<  0.001

Physical Activity (MET-hr/wk)

35 ± 7

35 ± 7

0.196

30 ± 6

34 ± 7

38 ± 5

< 0.001

Breast Feeding

119 (34)

238 (34)

0.926

61 (33)

145 (32)

151 (37)

0.298

Poor Social Economic Status

115 (33)

203 (29)

0.311

79 (43)

150 (33)

90 (22)

<  0.001

History of Disease

35 (10)

63 (9)

0.407

18 (10)

50 (11)

24 (6)

0.026

Supplement Use

31 (9)

70 (10)

0.715

20 (11)

45 (10)

36 (9)

0.575

  1. Variables: Age, BMI and PA are Means ± SD, other variable values are counts, values between () are %.
  2. * P values were obtained from independent Student’s t test, one-way ANOVA or χ2 test, where appropriate