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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dig Dis Sci. 2013 Jan 12;58(6):1790–1796. doi: 10.1007/s10620-012-2527-3

Table 3.

Demographic characteristics of HCC patients with tumor sizes ≥5 cm, dichotomized by platelet counts

Parametera Platelet counts (×109/L)
p value§
(125–400) (n = 438) >400 (n = 43)
Sex (%) 0.20
 Female 25.8 34.9
 Male 74.2 65.1
Age (years) 62.0 ± 13.6 55.7 ± 13.9 0.008#
Hepatitis (%) 0.72
 None 57.9 65.0
 B 17.4 12.5
 C 16.4 17.5
 B and C 8.2 5.0
Cirrhosis (%) 0.001
 Negative 36.1 63.4
 Positive 63.9 36.6
Alcohol (%) 0.55
 No 34.1 39.4
 Sometimes 19.8 21.2
 Irregularly 10.3 15.1
 Everyday 35.7 24.2
Smoking (%) 0.84
 No 37.3 42.4
 Occasionally 10.6 9.1
 Smoker 52.0 48.5
a

All values: mean ± standard deviation

§

χ2 test

#

Wilcoxon rank-sum (Mann–Whitney) test