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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 3.
Published in final edited form as: Head Neck. 2015 Nov 13;38(Suppl 1):E1325–E1331. doi: 10.1002/hed.24223

Table 2.

Correlations within subsets of population

Parameter CCNA1
CD1A
DCC
NDN
Nc rd 95% CI Nc rd 95% CI Nc rd 95% CI Nc rd 95% CI
Second Specimen Type
 Biopsy 25 0.64 (0.33, 0.83) 27 0.63 (0.33, 0.81) 27 0.57 (0.24, 0.78) 26 0.77 (0.54, 0.89)
 Surgery 61 0.64 (0.46, 0.77) 67 0.74 (0.61, 0.83) 69 0.75 (0.62, 0.84) 68 0.56 (0.37, 0.70)
HPV Status
 HPV+ 27 0.52 (0.17, 0.75) 29 0.45 (0.10, 0.70) 29 0.49 (0.15, 0.73) 28 0.57 (0.25, 0.78)
 HPV− 59 0.52 (0.30, 0.68) 65 0.77 (0.65, 0.85) 67 0.60 (0.42, 0.73) 66 0.58 (0.39, 0.72)
Days between specimensa
 0–44 days 43 0.71 (0.52, 0.83) 49 0.74 (0.58, 0.85) 49 0.64 (0.44, 0.78) 48 0.67 (0.48, 0.80)
 >44 days 43 0.52 (0.26, 0.71) 45 0.68 (0.48, 0.81) 47 0.72 (0.55, 0.83) 46 0.65 (0.44, 0.79)
Smoking Status
 Current 39 0.74 (0.55, 0.86) 44 0.67 (0.46, 0.81) 44 0.48 (0.21, 0.68) 44 0.59 (0.36, 0.75)
 Former 33 0.58 (0.30, 0.77) 34 0.81 (0.65, 0.90) 36 0.79 (0.62, 0.88) 34 0.68 (0.44, 0.83)
 Never 14 0.64 (0.17, 0.87) 16 0.49 (−0.01, 0.79) 16 0.84 (0.59, 0.94) 16 0.74 (0.39, 0.90)
Pack-yearsb
 <20 pack-years 26 0.65 (0.35, 0.83) 27 0.78 (0.57, 0.89) 28 0.67 (0.40, 0.83) 28 0.59 (0.28, 0.79)
 ≥20 pack-years 45 0.60 (0.37, 0.76) 50 0.73 (0.57, 0.84) 51 0.66 (0.47, 0.79) 50 0.67 (0.48, 0.80)
a

cutoff based on median.

b

cutoff based on Gillison, et al. paper(17)

c

Number of patients

d

Correlation Coefficient