Table 3.
Spearman's rank correlation coefficients of correlation between mean length, length/width ratio, and the chronologic variables considered.
| Period of occupational latency (years) | Period of environmental latency (years) | Survival time since diagnosis of MM (months) | Time since the end of exposure (years) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *rho | p.value | rho | p.value | rho | p.value | rho | p.value | |
| Mean length of asbestos fibers (μm) | −0.050 | 0.795 | 0.248 | 0.155 | 0.095 | 0.514 | −0.176 | 0.210 |
| Length/width ratio | −0.233 | 0.232 | 0.041 | 0.820 | 0.227 | 0.124 | −0.157 | 0.276 |
*
rho, Spearman's rank correlation coefficients.