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Table 2 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients of associations between urinary biomarkers of tobacco exposure, 8-OHdG, and m7Gua

From: Effects of smoking cessation on biological monitoring markers in urine

Variable

Correlation coefficients

Nicotine

Cotinine

NNAL

m7Gua

Cotinine

0.80**

NNAL

0.61**

0.66**

m7Gua

0.16

0.26**

0.35**

8-OHdG

0.04

−0.06

−0.02

0.22*

  1. * indicates p < 0.05. ** indicates p < 0.01