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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2016 Sep 6;25(1):167–176. doi: 10.1007/s00520-016-3400-2

Table 5.

Correlations between CRP (ln) and symptom clusters

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)
Symptom cluster total score
Global cognition score −0.1061
(0.3685)		 −0.2721
(0.0199)		 –0.1669
(0.1643)		 –0.1706
(0.1580)		 –0.1978
(0.1114)
Affective symptoms score −0.0356
(0.7636)		 0.01575
(0.8948)		 0.1872
(0.1181)		 0.1661
(0.1693)		 0.0515
(0.6812)
Cognitive efficiency score −0.2706
(0.0197)		 −0.24277
(0.0385)		 –0.3287
(0.0051)		 –0.2746
(0.0214)		 –0.3810
(0.0016)
Symptom cluster weighted sums
Global cognition −0.1036
(0.3796)		 −0.2777
(0.0174)		 –0.2335
(0.0500)		 –0.2128
(0.0748)		 –0.2590
(0.0330)
Affective symptoms 0.1289
(0.2706)		 0.05461
(0.6417)		 0.2781
(0.0172)		 0.2080
(0.0840)		 0.1410
(0.2550)
Cognitive efficiency −0.3199
(0.0055)		 −0.3367
(0.0036)		 –0.3796
(0.0011)		 –0.3018
(0.0105)		 –0.3609
(0.0025)

Cluster total scores were derived from factor loading for all visits combined (top three rows).Weighted sums that had a significant loading (absolute value ≥0.40) on a factor were used for the cluster weighted sums Italics indicate significance at α=0.05