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Table 1 Descriptive characteristics and odds ratios of pancreatic cancer cases and hospital controls – Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 1982–1996.

From: Regular use of aspirin and pancreatic cancer risk

 

Cases (n = 194)

Controls (n = 582)

OR1 (95% CI)

Age2

62.02

62.07

1.00 (0.98, 1.02)

Education3,5

   

   Up to High School

51 (26.4)

139 (24.0)

1.00

   High School

67 (34.7)

182 (32.4)

0.89 (0.55, 1.42)

   Some College

34 (17.6)

127 (21.9)

0.72 (0.42, 1.22)

   College Graduate

41 (21.2)

132 (22.8)

0.92 (0.54, 1.56)

Cigarette Smoking (pack-years)3,4

   

   None

65 (34.0)

246 (43.6)

1.00

   ≤ 13.5

15 (7.9)

79 (14.0)

0.84 (0.44, 1.59)

   14–30

44 (23.0)

83 (14.7)

2.12 (1.30, 3.48)

   30.5–52.5

38 (19.9)

76 (13.5)

2.17 (1.32, 3.59)

   ≤ 53

29 (15.2)

80 (14.2)

1.41 (0.82, 2.43)

Family history of pancreatic cancer3

   

   No

183 (94.3)

570 (97.9)

1.00

   Yes

11 (5.7)

12 (2.1)

2.65 (1.09, 6.45)

Race3,5

   

   Caucasian

144 (96.6)

494 (94.5)

1.00

   African-American

4 (2.7)

26 (5.0)

2.38 (0.23, 24.28)

   Other

1 (0.7)

3 (0.6)

0.44 (0.04, 5.53)

Sex3

   

   Female

88 (45.4)

264 (45.4)

1.00

   Male

106 (54.6)

318 (54.6)

0.95 (0.65, 1.38)

Body-Mass Index3,6

   

   ≤ 23

46 (24.7)

144 (25.4)

1.00

   23–25.6

32 (17.2)

143 (25.3)

0.68 (0.39, 1.17)

   25.7–27.9

52 (28.0)

139 (24.6)

1.20 (0.73, 1.98)

   ≥ 28

56 (30.1)

140 (24.7)

1.27 (0.78, 2.05)

  1. 1. odds ratios reported for model including age, education, cigarette smoking, relative with pancreatic cancer, race, sex and body mass index 2. mean 3. n (%) 4. quartiles based on control distribution after excluding never smokers 5. kg/m2 6. quartiles based on control distribution