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. 2011 Mar 31;6(3):e17438. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017438

Table 1. Clinical characteristics of GBM patients according to their low or high risk group in the training set, the testing set and the entire patient set.

Characteristic Training set p-value * Testing set p-value * Entire patient set p-value *
Low risk (N = 69) High risk (N = 42) Low risk (N = 68) High risk (N = 43) Low risk (N = 137) High risk (N = 85)
Age (Mean ± SD) 51.5±6.6 54.4±1.9 0.5 54±12.7 58.3±10.2 0.1 52.8±14.8 56.4±11.2 0.1
Gender
Female (%) 26 (37.7) 13 (31) 0.5 27 (39.7) 12 (27.9) 0.2 53 (38.7) 25 (29.4) 0.2
Male (%) 43 (62.3) 29 (69) 41 (60.3) 31 (72.1) 84 (61.3) 60 (70.6)

*Two-tailed p-value obtained from Mann-Whitney test.