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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of patients with breast cancer, benign breast tumors, Graves’ disease and in controls

From: TSH receptor antibodies have predictive value for breast cancer – retrospective analysis

Parameter

Clinical characteristics

Statistical analysis

BC

BBT

C

All patients

p (BC vs. BBT)

p (BC vs. C)

p (BBT vs. C)

Patients – No (%)

9 (0.53%)

47 (2.78%)

1630 (96.6%)

1686 (100%)

ns

<0.0001

<0.0001

Age – yr (mean ± SD)

54.55 ± 9.60

46.27 ± 14.18

36.10 ± 15.89

36.48 ± 15.95

ns

0.0005

<0.0001

Graves’ disease – No (%)

3 (33.3%)

6 (12.7%)

111 (6.8%)

120 (7.1%)

ns

0.0025

ns

  1. Clinical characteristics of patients with breast cancer (BC), patients with benign breast tumors (BBT) and controls (C) and the occurrence of Graves’ disease. Statistical evaluation was done by an unpaired Student’s t-test (for age) or by the two-sided ratio comparison test (for no. of patients and for Graves’ disease occurrence); ns, non-significant.
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