Table 3.

Partial Correlations between Prostate Cancer Incidence and Independent Variable When Meat Was Included as the Independent and Confounder Respectively

	Partial Correlation to			Partial Correlation to
	PC61			PC61
Variables	r	p	df	r	p	df
Meat	0.295	<0.001	150	-	-	-
Ageing	-	-	-	0.277	<0.001	160
GDP	-	-	-	0.100	0.209	160
Is	-	-	-	-0.041	0.608	158
Obesity	-	-	-	0.070	0.382	158
Urbanization	-	-	-	0.185	P<0.05	160

Partial correlations were reported; Meat intake (kg/capita/year) sourced from the Food and Agriculture Organization; Ageing (percent of males ages 65 and above) and GDP PPP (gross domestic product converted to international dollars using purchasing power parity rates) and urbanization (the percent of males living in urban areas) were sourced from the World Bank. Male obesity prevalence (percent of males aged 18+ with BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2); Is was extracted from previous publications; - Included as the confounding factor.