Long-term effects on carotid intima-media thickness after radiotherapy in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Radiation Oncology

Table 3 Correlation analysis of the effects of candidate risk factors on CCA IMT in NPC patients

Variables	Correlation coefficient	P value
Age	0.598	<0.001
Duration of radiotherapy therapy (months)	0.615	<0.001
hs-CRP	0.222	0.014
Glucose, mg/dL	0.147	0.144
HBA1c	0.200	0.049
Total Cholesterol	-0.074	0.459
HDL	-0.030	0.765
LDL-C	0.013	0.895
Body mass index	0.045	0.652
Platelet count	0.326	0.001

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