Research Article

Increases in Xu Zheng and Yu Zheng among Patients with Breast Cancer Receiving Different Anticancer Drug Therapies

Table 2

The GLMM results on the yang-xu, yin-xu, and yu zhengs.

Yang-xu zhengYin xu zhengYu zheng
EstimateSEP EstimateSEP EstimateSEP

Intercept8.393.280.016.642.26<0.019.842.85<0.01
Target therapy stagea0.331.500.830.891.100.420.811.310.54
Combined therapy stagea3.881.440.012.551.080.022.401.250.06
3 months after treatmentb3.650.78<0.012.830.67<0.012.360.67<0.01
1 month after treatmentb2.320.66<0.012.450.54<0.012.050.60<0.01
Age0.030.060.60−0.020.040.690.000.050.95
Diabetes1.952.170.371.081.620.512.371.880.21
Coronary heart disease3.352.140.125.071.58<0.013.371.860.07
Cancer stage III or IV0.511.280.690.460.920.620.611.110.59
TCM Treatmentc1.931.130.090.950.900.291.171.000.24
Mastectomyd−2.891.820.11−3.381.580.04

Anthracycline-based chemotherapy, bpretreatment, cwithout TCM treatment, and dwithout mastectomy.
GLMM: generalized linear mixed model, AR(1). The significance level was set at P < 0.05.