Table 1 Descriptive information for 625 CRC patients vs. 468 healthy controls.

From: Plasma N-glycans in colorectal cancer risk

Feature

CRC (n = 625)

Control (n = 468)

P-value

Age

(median[IQR])

52 (47–55)

53 (48–56)

2.32E-02

BMI

(median[IQR])

26 (23–29)

28 (26–31)

1.31E-0.7

CRP

(median[IQR])

0.36 (0.12–1.635)

0.18 (0.09–0.60)

8.61E-11

KCalories

(median[IQR])

2527 (2006–3366)

2572 (2055–3238)

4.63E-01

Gender

(male/female)

54.24/45.76

55.34/44.66

7.59E-01

Family history

(Low/medium or high/unknown)

67.84%/27.04%/5.12%

96.03%/1.05%/2.93%

3.81E-39

Physical activity

(very low or low/medium or high/unknown)

58.08%/14.08%/27.84%

62.18%/14.96%/22.86%

3.49E-01

Smoking status

(non/current or former/unknown)

36.96%/37.44%/25.60%

38.25%/41.03%/20.73%

2.62E-01

NSAIDs

(no/yes/unknown)

60.00%/15.04%/24.96%

59.62%/19.66%/20.73%

6.62E-02

  1. Underlined p-values show significant differences between CRC and control. To highlight biological variation for continuous variables the median and interquartile ranges (IQR) are shown. IQR shows the spread of the continuous variables. For categorical features the basic counts are shown.