Table 1 Characteristics of the Stony Brook University World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program population
From: Risk factors for incident prostate cancer in a cohort of world trade center responders
| Â | No Prostate cancer | Prostate Cancer Diagnosis | Â | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Patient Characteristic | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | P-value |
Age at 9/11/2001 | 37.8 | 8.2 | 49.8 | 8.6 | < 0.001 |
Re-experiencing symptoms | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.003 |
WTC Exposure Severity | 14.5 | 4.5 | 14.5 | 4.4 | 0.919 |
Weeks worked at the WTC | 5.3 | 4.5 | 5.4 | 4.6 | 0.814 |
Body Mass | 30.9 | 5.2 | 29.8 | 4.2 | 0.066 |
| Â | % | Â | % | Â | P-value |
Race/Ethnicity | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.033 |
 White | 72.2% |  | 81.0% |  |  |
 Black | 3.3% |  | 5.1% |  |  |
 Asian/Pacific Islander | 0.8% |  | – |  |  |
 American Indian/Alaskan Native | 0.2% |  | – |  |  |
 Multi-Race | 0.4% |  | 1.3% |  |  |
 Other/Unknown Race | 16.0% |  | 2.5% |  |  |
 Hispanic | 7.1% |  | 10.1% |  |  |