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Table 3 Associations between changes in acute gastrointestinal toxicity grades across radiotherapy and patient’s individual and clinical characteristics

From: Circulating levels of IL-6 and TGF-β1 in patients with prostate cancer undergoing radiotherapy: associations with acute radiotoxicity and fatigue symptoms

Parameter

Univariate analysis a

b

p

Smoking status—smokers

0.047

0.729

Alcohol consumption

-0.096

0.432

Diabetes mellitus

0.000

1.000

Chronic hypertension

-0.050

0.704

Abdominal operation

0.102

0.385

  1. a multilevel ordinal regression models with the degree of toxicity as the dependent variable, controlled for type of radiotherapy