Table 4.

All 14 new main correlations analyzed for the period newly set.

Case number of the patient	Slope	Absolute value of slope	p	Absolute value of r	n
Case  1	0.415	0.415	6 × 10−10	0.9	25
Case  2	0.4296	0.4296	9 × 10−8	0.97	13
Case  3	0.6245	0.6245	0.001	0.89	9
Case  6	0.1186	0.1186	0.045	0.82	6
Case  7	−0.1015	0.1015	0.035	0.9	5
Case  8	0.3461	0.3461	4 × 10−11	0.99	13
Case  9	0.4383	0.4383	1 × 10−12	0.99	16
Case  10	0.0921	0.0921	3 × 10−9	0.89	25
Case  11	0.1192	0.1192	1 × 10−10	0.96	19
Case  12	0.1062	0.1062	5 × 10−16	0.95	31
Case  14	−0.0458	0.0458	0.004	0.91	7
Case  15	−0.1094	0.1094	8 × 10−6	0.96	10
Case  17	0.1304	0.1304	0.004	0.88	8
Case  23	0.3707	0.3707	0.004	0.85	9
The mean ± SD		0.2462 ± 0.1766		0.92 ± 0.05

Continuous variables were shown as mean ± standard deviation. In all the 23 patients the period was newly set from the closest date after half the total clinical period to that date after three-quarters. Of 23 patients, seven whose analyzed period remained less than two years were excluded. In the remaining 16 patients, the new main correlations were analyzed. In two of these 16, the correlations were not recognized. In case 16 the correlation could not be analyzed because of only two data and in case 13 number of data was three and the correlation was not recognized by p = 0.08 and r = 0.99. Slope, the slope of the correlation; p, a p value; r, correlation coefficient; n, number of data to analyze the correlation.