Research Article
Benign Adrenocortical Tumors and the Detection of Nonadrenal Neoplasia
Table 3
Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of cases and controls.
| Characteristic | Cases (adrenocortical tumor) | Controls (normal adrenal) | value |
| Patients, n | 400 | 400 | | Mean age, years (SD) | 62.7 (12.9) | 58.3 (14.5) | <0.001 | Sex | | | | Female | 268 (67.0%) | 306 (76.5%) | 0.001 | Male | 132 (33.0%) | 94 (23.5%) | | Race | | | | White | 294 (73.5%) | 257 (64.3%) | 0.043 | Black | 29 (7.25%) | 37 (9.3%) | | Hispanic | 16 (4.0%) | 26 (6.5%) | | Others | 61 (15.25%) | 80 (20.0%) | | Institutional primary care provider | 237 (59.3%) | 251 (62.8%) | 0.31 | Mean BMI, kg/m2 (SD) | 29.5 (6.9) | 28.5 (7.0) | 0.047 | Interval of abdominal cross-sectional imaging, years (SD) | 4.7 (3.8) | 5.9 (4.8) | 0.007 | Smoking status | | | | Nonsmoker | 173 (43.3%) | 216 (54.0%) | 0.37 | Current or past smoker | 227 (56.7%) | 184 (46.0%) | | Comorbidity | | | | Hypertension | 242 (60.5%) | 193 (48.2%) | 0.41 | Diabetes or prediabetes | 107 (26.7%) | 71 (17.8%) | 0.04 | Hyperlipidemia | 207 (51.7%) | 169 (42.2%) | 0.92 | Coronary artery disease | 60 (15.0%) | 40 (10.0%) | 0.62 | Myocardial infarction | 29 (7.2%) | 16 (4.0%) | 0.50 |
|
|
Note. Interval of imaging defined as the time period between the initial and most recent cross-sectional abdominal imaging study. |