Association between patient ethnicity and prostate cancer diagnosis following a prostate-specific antigen test: a cohort study of 730,000 men in primary care in the UK

Table 1 Population characteristics

	Number of patients	Proportion of cohort	Age, median	Percent of patients aged 60 or over	Percent of patients in most deprived quintile	Percent of patients with no multimorbidity	Prostate cancer incidence^a	Advanced prostate cancer incidence^a
White	649 445	88.9%	64	64.2%	12.4%	23.3%	24 305 (3.7%)	8 110 (1.2%)
Asian	37 827	5.2%	59	47.7%	22.5%	24.1%	465 (1.2%)	140 (0.4%)
Black	31 053	4.3%	54	33.9%	41.7%	32.5%	1 198 (3.9%)	320 (1.0%)
Mixed	5 736	0.8%	55	37.0%	26.0%	32.0%	155 (2.7%)	36 (0.6%)
Other	6 454	0.9%	56	38.7%	25.5%	36.9%	115 (1.8%)	44 (0.7%)

^aUnadjusted cancer incidence within 1 year of PSA test. All patients including those with a normal PSA result

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