The association between plasma HDL-C and EBB-induced bleeding risk was shown in Table 3 after adjusting for smoking, histological type, stage of cancer, triglyceride, PT, APTT and CRP (adjust criterion I), or after adjusting for sex, age, smoking, location of lesion, histological type, stage of cancer, triglyceride, apolipoprotein E, PT, APTT, neutrophils and CRP (adjust criterion II). Here, APOE is linked to cancer.