Table 4 Correlative associations between univariate test variables.
From: Elevated levels of Dickkopf-related protein 3 in seminal plasma of prostate cancer patients
SP PSA | serum PSA | Age | Gleason* | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
all | neg | pos | all | neg | pos | all | neg | pos | |||
Cohort | Variable | r ( p -value) | r ( p -value) | r ( p -value) | r ( p -value) | r ( p -value) | r ( p -value) | r ( p -value) | r ( p -value) | r ( p -value) | r ( p -value) |
all patients | SP Dkk-3 | -0.276 | -0.165 | -0.417 | -0.950 | -0.212 | -0.128 | 0.118 | -0.010 | 0.220 | 0.019 |
(0.013) | (0.301) | (0.007) | (0.400) | (0.183) | (0.432) | (0.294) | (0.950) | (0.173) | (0.906) | ||
SP PSA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.020 | 0.125 | -0.068 | -0.320 | -0.107 | 0.037 | 0.114 | |
(0.860) | (0.437) | (0.679) | (0.777) | (0.507) | (0.822) | (0.483) | |||||
serum PSA | 0.020 | 0.125 | -0.038 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.117 | -0.107 | 0.024 | 0.336 | |
(0.860) | (0.437) | (0.679) | (0.298) | (0.507) | (0.884) | (0.034) | |||||
clinical follow-up | SP Dkk-3 | -0.241 | -0.104 | -0.430 | -0.100 | -0.327 | -0.174 | 0.080 | -0.307 | 0.336 | 0.123 |
> 3 yr | (0.054) | (0.620) | (0.026) | (0.506) | (0.111) | (0.450) | (0.596) | (0.135) | (0.137) | (0.595) | |
SP PSA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.043 | 0.219 | -0.099 | 0.099 | 0.071 | 0.169 | 0.181 | |
(0.777) | (0.293) | (0.668) | (0.511) | (0.844) | (0.465) | (0.431) | |||||
serum PSA | -0.100 | 0.219 | -0.099 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.085 | 0.312 | 0.018 | 0.491 | |
(0.506) | (0.293) | (0.668) | (0.572) | (0.129) | (0.938) | (0.024) | |||||