Table I.

Association between ECHS1 expression and clinicopathological characteristics in CRC and proximal non-cancerous colorectal tissues.

		ECHS1
Variables	n	Negative	Positive	P-value
Tissue type
CRC	148	64	84	<0.001
Paraneoplastic	38	36	2
Age, years
<55	76	40	36	0.419
≥55	72	42	30
Gender
Male	78	38	40	0.623
Female	70	36	34
Differentiation
High/Moderate	86	34	52	0.028
Low	62	20	42
Stage				0.015
I	30	6	24
II	44	10	34
III	48	12	36
IV	26	4	22
LN metastasis
N0	38	20	18	0.011
N1	54	24	30
N2	56	14	42

ECHS1, enoyl coenzyme A hydratase, short chain, 1; CRC, colorectal cancer; LN, lymph node.