Table 1 Baseline characteristics of 2833 invasive breast cancer by diabetes status identified from CMS data

From: Pre-existing diabetes and breast cancer prognosis among elderly women

 

No diabetes (2534 patients)

Diabetes (299 patients)

P -value

Age at breast cancer diagnosis (mean (s.d.))

73.2 (5.4)

73.4 (5.3)

0.69

White (not of Hispanic origin) (%)

2339 (92.3)

248 (82.9)

<0.0001

BMI at baseline (mean (s.d.), kg m−2)

27.6 (5.4)

32.1 (6.2)

<0.0001

Physical Activity (METs per week, mean (s.d.))

12.7 (13.0)

9.3 (10.4)

<0.0001

Alcohol use (%)

  

<0.0001

Nondrinker

224 (8.8)

51 (17.1)

 

Past drinker

379 (15.0)

80 (26.8)

 

Current drinker

1913 (75.5)

165 (55.2)

 

Education (%)

  

0.0002

High school diploma or less

443 (17.5)

77 (25.8)

 

Some college or technical training

917 (36.2)

118 (39.5)

 

College or higher

1162 (45.9)

102 (34.1)

 

Dietary intake

   

Dietary energy (kcal)

1636 (624.7)

1750 (864.5)

0.03

Percent calories from fat

33 (8.1)

34 (8.3)

0.04

Daily fruit consumption (med portion)

1.9 (1.2)

2.0 (1.3)

0.6

Daily vegetable consumption (med portion)

2.3 (1.3)

2.3 (1.5)

0.9

Prior hormone use at baseline (%)

  

<0.0001

No

1042 (41.1)

156 (52.2)

 

OEstrogen alone

705 (27.8)

90 (30.1)

 

OEstrogen plus progestin

606 (23.9)

>11 ()

 

Mixed

181 (7.1)

<11 ()

 

Comorbidity

  

<0.0001

0

2145 (84.7)

220 (73.6)

 

1

313 (12.4)

49 (16.4)

 

2

57 (2.2)

16 (5.4)

 

3+

19 (0.8)

14 (4.7)

 

Family history of cancer among female relatives (%)

1333 (52.6)

163 (54.5)

0.31

  1. Abbreviation: MET=Metabolic equivalent task. The cell sizes were suppressed for confidentiality reasons per the Medicare data usage agreement. Some of categories did not exactly sum up to the total number because of missing values.