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Table 4 Cardiovascular risk factors in patients with left and right breast cancer (mean value ± standard deviation).

From: Myocardial perfusion imaging with 99 mTc - tetrofosmin SPECT in breast cancer patients that received postoperative radiotherapy: a case-control study

Risk factor

Left Breast

Cancer

Right Breast

Cancer

Control individuals

LBC vs Control

RBC vs Control

Smoking

2/28 (7.1%)

4/18 (14.3%)

12/85 (14.1%)

p = 0.27

p = 0.46

HTN

14/28 (50.0%)

6/18 (21.4%)

54/85 (63.5%)

p = 0.22

p = 0.024*

DM

7/28 (25.0%)

4/18 (14.3%)

15/85 (17.6%)

p = 0.51

p = 0.76

HL

10/28 (35.7%)

9/18 (32.1%)

49/85 (57.6%)

p = 0.05*

p = 0.57

Family

History

5/28 (17.9%)

5/18 (17.9%)

39/85 (45.9%)

0.003**

0.15

  1. HTN: hypertension; DM: diabetes mellitus; HL: hyperlipidemia; LBC: Left breast cancer; RBC: Right breast cancer; *: p ≤ 0.05; **: p ≤ 0.01