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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2018 Dec 6;125(5):779–787. doi: 10.1002/cncr.31859

TABLE 4.

Association Between C-Reactive Protein Inflammation Cutoff Scores and Clinically Significant Depression as Determined Using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS ≥8)

Sensitivity and Specificity Analyses Depression (HADS-D ≥8)
Yes No Total χ2
CRP level, n (%) Missing = 2 (1.8%)
 ≥3.0 mg/mL 13 (50.0) 9 (11.3) 22 (20.8)
 1–2.99 mg/mL 7 (26.9) 18 (22.5) 25 (23.6)
 <1.0 mg/mL 6 (23.1) 53 (66.2) 59 (55.6)
Total, n (%) 26 (24.5) 80 (75.5) 106 (100) 20.93, P<.001

Abbreviations: CRP, C-reactive protein; HADS-D, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale–Depression Subscale.