Research Article

Study on the Relationship between Manganese Concentrations in Rural Drinking Water and Incidence and Mortality Caused by Cancer in Huai’an City

Table 5

The correlation analysis between the Mn concentration and cancer incidence rate and mortality rate.

VariableIncidenceMortality

Periods
 High flow period−0.12 0.68 −0.22 0.45
 Low flow period0.71 0.01 0.67 0.01
Sources
 Surface water−0.14 0.62 −0.21 0.47
 Shallow groundwater0.47 0.09 0.34 0.24
 Deep groundwater0.21 0.47 0.40 0.16
 All0.20 0.21 0.17 0.27