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Table 2 Spearman correlation between 3-year prevalence of eyelid skin cancers and the risk factors at the provincial level in Iran

From: A registration trend in eyelid skin cancers and associated risk factors in Iran, 2005–2016

Risk factors

Total tumors

Carcinomas

BCC

Adenocarcinoma

Melanoma

r

p

r

p

r

p

r

p

r

p

UV exposure

-0.12

0.537

0.11

0.530

-0.18

0.413

-0.15

0.428

-0.20

0.280

Smoking

0.42

0.019

0.47

0.008

0.21

0.234

0.23

0.212

0.01

0.966

Alcohol use

0.19

0.294

0.24

0.207

0.31

0.100

0.09

0.636

-0.02

0.923

Low physical activity

-0.22

0.236

-0.18

0.338

-0.13

0.269

-0.14

0.460

-0.08

0.690

Obesity / overweight

0.37

0.045

0.39

0.033

0.25

0.021

0.15

0.407

0.35

0.055

High cholesterol

0.06

0.759

-0.01

0.995

-0.05

0.815

-0.06

0.717

0.11

0.555

Diabetes

0.05

0.796

0.08

0.671

-0.13

0.496

-0.16

0.384

0.04

0.839

Hypertension

-0.18

0.344

-0.22

0.242

-0.23

0.217

-0.02

0.911

-0.14

0.462

Low fruit intake

0.34

0.069

0.29

0.110

0.23

0.224

0.57

0.001

0.37

0.046

Low vegetable intake

0.14

0.465

0.13

0.474

0.08

0.345

0.42

0.020

0.03

0.879

  1. Italic rows indicate correlations with borderline P- values
  2. BCC Basal cell carcinoma