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Table 3 Comparison of disease characteristics at diagnosis between Bedouins and Jews

From: Clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of non Hodgkin’s lymphoma in Bedouins in the south of Israel

 

Bedouins

Jews

p value

 

No.

%

No.

%

 

All histological subtypes

     

Stage 4

18

40

11

24.4

0.347

Extranodal involvement

7

15.6

1

2.2

0.026

 

Stomach

2

    
 

Pleura

2

    
 

Liver

2

    
 

Lung

1

    
 

CNS

  

1

  

Mean LDH (U/L)

773.92

512.15

0.008

ECOG 1–2

34

75.6

40

95.2

 

ECOG 3–4

11

24.4

2

4.8

0.01

 

Positive/tested

 

Hepatitis B

3/11

 

0/11

  

Hepatitis C

0/7

 

0/11

 

0.214

HIV

0/4

 

0/4

  

DLBCL subtype

     

Mean LDH (U/L)

827.07

538.17

0.019

Mean IPI

2.26

1.41

0.011

ECOG 1–2

22

73.3

25

96.2

0.022

ECOG 3–4

8

26.7

1

3.8

 
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