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Table 1 Characteristics of the glioma study population

From: Exploring the relationship between age and prognosis in glioma: rethinking current age stratification

Characteristics

Overall

N=66465

Children

(Birth to 19 years); N=2066

Young adults

(20-39 years); N=7158

Adults

(40-64 years); N=30495

Elderly

(65-84 years); N=26746

Follow-up time (years)

 Mean (SD)

2.0 (3.20)

5.5 (5.67)

5.0 (4.81)

2.0 (2.99)

0.8 (1.31)

 Median (IQR)

0.8 (0.25-1.92)

2.7 (0.92-9.56)

3.3 (1.25-7.58)

1.1 (0.42-2.08)

0.3 (0.17-0.92)

Gender (%)

 Female

28077 (42.24)

967 (46.81)

2947 (41.17)

12291 (40.30)

11872 (44.39)

 Male

38388 (57.76)

1099 (53.19)

4211 (58.83)

18204 (59.70)

14874 (55.61)

Year diagnosed (%)

 2000-2006

22148 (33.32)

749 (36.25)

2615 (36.53)

10143 (33.26)

8641 (32.31)

 2007-2012

20964 (31.54)

669 (32.38)

2124 (29.67)

9922 (32.54)

8249 (30.84)

 2013-2018

23353 (35.14)

648 (31.36)

2419 (33.79)

10430 (34.20)

9856 (36.85)

Race (%)

 Black

4008 (6.03)

255 (12.34)

497 (6.94)

1989 (6.52)

1267 (4.74)

 White

58747 (88.39)

1604 (77.64)

6024 (84.16)

26844 (88.03)

24275 (90.76)

 Other

3710 (5.58)

207 (10.02)

637 (8.90)

1662 (5.45)

1204 (4.50)

Histology (%)

 Diffuse astrocytoma

5983 (9.00)

808 (39.11)

1700 (23.75)

2159 (7.08)

1316 (4.92)

 Anaplastic astrocytoma

6058 (9.11)

377 (18.25)

1539 (21.50)

2596 (8.51)

1546 (5.78)

 Glioblastoma

50128 (75.42)

623 (30.15)

2361 (32.98)

23632 (77.49)

23512 (87.91)

 Oligodendroglioma

4296 (6.46)

258 (12.49)

1558 (21.77)

2108 (6.91)

372 (1.39)

Location (%)

 Infratentorial

1600 (2.41)

478 (23.14)

327 (4.57)

487 (1.60)

308 (1.15)

 Supratentorial

50706 (76.29)

1261 (61.04)

5703 (79.67)

23635 (77.50)

20107 (75.18)

 Overlapping lesion

14159 (21.30)

327 (15.83)

1128 (15.76)

6373 (20.90)

6331 (23.67)

  1. SD standard deviation, IQR Inter Quartile Range