Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 18.
Published in final edited form as: Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2017 Apr 18;20(3):339–342. doi: 10.1038/pcan.2017.16

Table 2.

Linear mixed effects model for fPCA3 (n=260)

Covariate Co-efficient P value
Time 0.06 < 0.001
High-grade1 0.05 0.04
Risk strata2 0.02 0.08
Age 0.04 0.01
High-grade × Time1 0.01 0.53
Risk strata × Time2 0.05 0.37
1

High-grade = Gleason score >6

2

Risk strata = Very low-risk (T1c, Gleason score of 6 or less, PSA<10 ng/mL, 2 or fewer positive biopsy cores with cancer, 50% or less cancer in each core, PSA density <0.15 ng/mL/g) or Low-risk (men who did not meet very low-risk criteria but are T1-T2a, Gleason score 6 or less, PSA<10 ng/mL)