Clinicopathologic Characteristics and Long-Term Outcome of Gastric Cancer Patients with Family History: Seven-Year Follow-Up Study for Korean Health Check-Up Subjects

Table 1

Demographic findings of study population.

	Family history of gastric cancer				value
	Absent ()		Present ()
	No.	%	No.	%
Age (yr)
≤39	20	8	2	3.1	0.439
40-49	42	16.7	8	12.3
50-59	101	40.2	27	41.5
60-69	62	24.7	18	27.7
≥70	26	10.4	10	15.4
					0.059
Gender					0.306
Male	177	70.5	50	76.9
Female	74	29.5	15	23.1
Smoking					0.432
Current	67	28.5	17	28.3
Ex-smoker	83	35.3	26	43.3
None	85	36.2	17	28.3
Excess alcohol (>140 g/day)					0.167
Yes	112	47.5	35	57.4
No	124	52.5	26	42.6
Excess salt intake					0.839
Yes	148	63	38	64.4
No	87	37	21	35.6
EGD interval					0.046
<2 yr	55	21.9	22	33.8
≥2 yr	196	78.1	43	66.2

EGD: esophagogastroduodenoscopy; SD: standard deviation. Interval between the time of upper GI endoscopy confirming normal findings and the time of cancer diagnosis.