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. 2016 Aug 17;16:643. doi: 10.1186/s12885-016-2691-5

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Fig. 2 — Cumulative incidence of prostate cancer by quartiles of cholesterol in a cohort of initially healthy middle-aged men followed for 40 years, n = 1997. The number of prostate cancer diagnosis in each quartile of cholesterol was 80 (quartile 1), 51 (quartile 2), 48 (quartile 3) and 34 (quartile 4). P-value achieved from the Pepe and Mori test comparing the cumulative incidence of cholesterol quartile 1 versus quartile 4