Table 1 Study participant characteristics
From: Dysfunctional epigenetic aging of the normal colon and colorectal cancer risk
Characteristic | CRC risk status | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Low (%) [no concurrent adenomas] | Medium (%) [concurrent adenomas] | High (%) [concurrent cancer] | |
Total | 105 (100.0) | 128 (100.0) | 101 (100.0) |
Gender* | |||
 Female | 62 (59.0) | 55 (43.0) | 39 (38.6) |
 Male | 43 (41.0) | 73 (57.0) | 62 (61.4) |
Age* | |||
 Range (mean) | 19–81 (58) | 31–85 (63) | 28–79 (57) |
BMI | |||
 Range (mean) | 18–69 (30) | 19–48 (30) | 19–67 (30) |
 Not available | 5 | 7 | 29 |
Smoking | |||
 Current | 13 (12.8) | 11 (8.8) | 10 (12.5) |
 Former | 24 (23.5) | 49 (39.2) | 24 (30.0) |
 Never | 65 (63.7) | 65 (52.0) | 46 (57.5) |
 Not available | 3 | 3 | 21 |
NSAID use | |||
 Yes | 44 (43.1) | 70 (56.0) | 31 (40.3) |
 No | 58 (56.9) | 55 (44.0) | 46 (59.7) |
 Not available | 3 | 3 | 24 |
Array* | |||
 HM450 | 48 (45.7) | 31 (24.2) | 41 (40.6) |
 EPIC | 57 (54.3) | 97 (75.8) | 60 (59.4) |