Table 2.

Correlations for ln(CRP) with demographics

	Visit 1 (r value p value)	Visit 2 (r value p value)	Visit 3 (r value p value)	Visit 4 (r value p value)	Visit 5 (r value p value)
Agea	0.0624	0.1252	0.0697	−0.0203	−0.0288
	0.5947	0.2843	0.5579	0.8657	0.8141
Raceb	−0.2812	−0.1535	−0.2211	−0.2229	−0.2601
	0.0145	0.1887	0.0601	0.0599	0.0309
Ethnicityb	0.0846	0.0069	0.0518	0.2181	0.0996
	0.4707	0.9529	0.6632	0.0657	0.4157
Educationa	−0.3975	−0.3555	−0.3588	−0.1874	−0.2470
	0.0004	0.0017	0.0018	0.1149	0.0408
Employmenta	0.0693	0.0718	0.0652	0.1166	0.0069
	0.5548	0.5405	0.5838	0.3294	0.9552
Marital statusa	−0.0654	−0.0536	−0.0747	−0.0811	−0.1913
	0.5772	0.6482	0.5299	0.4981	0.1153
Incomea	−0.2829	−0.2715	−0.3067	−0.3323	−0.3093
	0.0139	0.0184	0.0083	0.0043	0.0097
Current ETOH useb	−0.2611	−0.1171	−0.2680	−0.2627	−0.2493
	0.0237	0.3171	0.0219	0.0258	0.0388
Current tobacco useb	0.1357	0.1610	0.2440	0.2607	0.1567
	0.2457	0.1678	0.0375	0.0270	0.1985
BMIa	0.4213	0.4409	0.4600	0.4327	0.4485
	0.0002	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0001	0.0001
Menopausal statusb	0.1003	0.1720	0.1860	0.0871	0.0506
	0.3920	0.1400	0.1152	0.4671	0.6798
Chemo type—TACb	0.0770	−0.0529	0.0047	−0.0291	0.0344
	0.5174	0.6564	0.9693	0.8112	0.7824
Chemo type—TCb	−0.1572	−0.0114	−0.0820	−0.1458	−0.0434
	0.1842	0.9238	0.4968	0.2285	0.7272
Chemo type—TCHb	0.0910	0.0854	0.0936 0.4374	0.2132 0.0765	0.0080 0.9487
	0.4440	0.4727
Radiationb	0.0969 0.4084	−0.0078 0.9469	0.1357 0.2522	0.0421 0.7255	0.0523 0.6696
Neoadjuvant treatmentb	0.0378 0.7477	0.1616 0.1659	0.1553 0.1895	0.1079 0.3672	0.1771 0.1455
Stagea	−0.0032 0.9784	0.0032 0.9783	0.0811 0.4955	0.1067 0.3725	0.1169 0.3387

Italics indicate significance at α = 0.05

^aSpearman rho correlation

^bPoint bi-serial correlation