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Table 4 High arsenic concentrations in cancer patients

From: Metallomics study using hair mineral analysis and multiple logistic regression analysis: relationship between cancer and minerals

 

No.

Hair arsenic concentration

p value

Geomean

Log As (mean ± SD)

Male

 Control

53

61.9

1.7914 ± 0.2425

 

 Cancer

52

123.7

2.0924 ± 0.4173

0.0000****

Female

 Control

33

31.4

1.4975 ± 0.4324

 

 Cancer

72

52.9

1.7231 ± 0.4058

0.0141*

  1. The hair arsenic concentrations in the 124 cancer patients are compared with those in the 86 control subjects. Each value of arsenic concentration was converted to its logarithm, and the geometric mean was used as the average hair arsenic level. Statistical significance was determined using Welch’s t test
  2. Statistically significant difference is shown with asterisk marks: *p < 0.05 and ****p < 0.0001
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Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

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