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Table 1 Descriptive statistics for case and control subjects, and for case-control paired differences.

From: Mammographic density and breast cancer: a comparison of related and unrelated controls in the Breast Cancer Family Registry

 

Mean (SD)

Case - Sister control

Case - Unrelated control

 

Case

N = 228

Control

Mean (SD)

N = 228

P valuec

Mean (SD)

N = 228.

P valuec

  

Sister

N = 228

Unrelated

N = 228

    

Age at mammogram (years)

50.7 (8.0)

51.4 (8.1)

50.9 (7.6)

- 0.68 (2.0)

<.0001

-0.21 (0.8)

0.0003

Weight (kg)

68.9 (13.7)

68.8a (16.2)

67.0 (15.9)

0.15 (17.0)a

0.89

1.88 (20.1)

0.16

Height (cm)

163.3 (6.9)

163.4b (6.2)

162.5 (6.8)

- 0.02 (6.8)b

0.96

0.81 (9.8)

0.22

Body mass index (kg/m2)

25.8 (4.7)

25.8b(5.8)

25.3 (5.4)

0.07 (6.0)b

0.87

0.48 (7.0)

0.30

Menopausal status (% post)

44.7

45.2

44.7

-0.5

0.89

0

1.00

Parous (% yes)

79.8

84.2

80.7

-4.4

0.19

-0.9

0.81

HRT ever used (% yes)

41.7

34.4a

37.3

7.3

0.08c

4.4

0.30

HRT current use (% yes)

29.8

22.4

29.8

7.4

0.04

0

1.00

Ethnicity (% white)

92.1

92.1

93.0

NA

NA

-0.9

0.72

Family history (% yes)

48

100

23

NA

NA

NA

NA

  1. aN = 227; bN = 226. For analysis, the overall averages were substituted for the missing values; cpaired t-test for continuous variables and McNemar's test for categorical variables. HRT, hormone replacement therapy; SD, standard deviation.