The risks of ubiquinone and β-carotene deficiency and metabolic disorders in patients with oral cancer

BMC Cancer

Table 3 Correlations between TNM stages, antioxidant vitamins, and blood pressure, waist circumference, glucose, lipid profiles, and inflammation status in subjects with oral cancer ¹

	SBP (mmHg)	DBP (mmHg)	Waist (cm)	FG (mmol/L)	TG (mmol/L)	LDL-C (mmol/L)	HDL-C (mmol/L)	hs-CRP (mg/L)	IL-6 (pg/mL)
TNM stages	−0.09	0.01	−0.12	0.17*	− 0.01	− 0.10	− 0.11	0.22*	0.35*
Antioxidant vitamins status²
β-carotene / LDL-C ≥ 81.3 nmol/mmol	0.02	0.01	−0.22*	0.02	−0.20*	−0.32*	− 0.05	0.08	0.06
Vitamin A / LDL-C ≥ 1.3 μmol/mmol	0.02	−0.04	− 0.08	0.06	0.13	−0.56*	0.01	−0.13	0.01
Vitamin E / LDL-C ≥ 9.5 μmol/mmol	0.13	0.13	−0.11	0.12	0.16	−0.45*	−0.09	0.07	0.17
Ubiquinone / LDL-C ≥ 102.0 nmol/mmol	0.08	0.03	0.00	0.07	−0.18*	−0.26*	0.30*	−0.01	− 0.03

¹ The data in this table were analyzed by Spearman’s rank order correlation. r, Spearman correlation coefficients. ² Antioxidant vitamins status were stratified by the median value of all subjects. *p < 0.05. DBP, diastolic blood pressure; FG, fasting glucose; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol; hs-CRP, high sensitivity C-reactive protein; IL-6, interleukin-6; LDL-C, low density lipoprotein-cholesterol; SBP, systolic blood pressure. TG, triglyceride; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis

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