Research Article
Prevalence of the Ser217Leu Variant of the ELAC2 Gene and Its Association with Prostate Cancer in Population of the Littoral Region of Cameroon
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of study subjects.
| Parameters | Cases (n = 103) | Controls (n = 80) | P value |
| Age (at enrollment) | 67.80 ± 7.44 | 56.39 ±12.60 | <0.0001 | BMI | 25.59 ± 4.21 | 26.82 ± 3.51 | 0.0676 | Hb | 11.42 ± 2.18 | 12.58 ± 2.22 | 0.0011 | Smoking | 33 (34.02%) | 23 (37.70) | 0.7329 | Excess Alcohol intake | 61 (63.54%) | 51 (86.44%) | 0.0028 | Lack of physical exercise | 41 (43.16%) | 31 (52.54%) | 0.3191 |
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BMI = body mass index, Hb = hemoglobin count.
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