Research Article

An Optimal Algorithm for Determining Risk Factors for Complex Diseases: Depressive Disorder, Osteoporosis, and Fracture in Young Patients with Breast Cancer Receiving Curative Surgery

Table 2

Present results compared with those of two other studies.

VariableChang et al. [12]aChang et al. [14]bThis study

Outcome variables:
 Depression disorders
 Fracture
 Osteoporosis
Comorbidities:
 Diabetes mellitus (DM)
 Hypertension
 Heart failure
 Coronary heart diseases (CHD)
 Cerebrovascular diseases
 Autoimmune diseases
 Kidney diseases
 Renal diseases
 Liver cirrhosis
 COPD
Distant metastatic
Primary metastatic
Adjuvant therapies:
 Chemotherapy
 Radiotherapy
 Tamoxifen
 AIs
 Trastuzumab

a[12]. b[14]. Statistically significant in studies; •, △, and □: implied variables were in the same cluster.