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Atherosclerotic diseases and lung cancer - a ten-year cross-sectional study in Cyprus
1Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece.
Introduction:
The main purpose of this work is to study atherosclerotic diseases and lung cancer in Cyprus during the period 2007-2017 with the aim of finding not only the atherosclerotic diseases with the highest risk but also a possible association between these diseases and lung cancer.
Material And Methods:
The statistical methods used to extract the results of this work are Student's t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), in order to check the statistical significance of atherosclerotic diseases with regard to the characteristics of the patients. Additionally, a multiple logistic regression analysis was used with the aim of finding the disease with the highest risk. Pearson's r was used to find a possible association between atherosclerotic diseases and lung cancer.
Results:
As specified by multiple logistic regression analysis, the atherosclerotic diseases with the highest risk of death are intracranial haemorrhage (OR = 17.3), heart failure (OR = 3.29), and stroke (OR = 3.02), with females having higher risk compared to men. Moreover, a statistically significant relation was found between heart failure and cerebral infarction with lung cancer.
Conclusions:
The results of this work highlight the statistically significant characteristics of patients with atherosclerotic diseases and identify the risk of death according to the type of the disease. A link between these diseases and cancer was also identified.
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