Table 2. Correlation between clinicopathological features and the p-AKT1, p-4E-BP1 expression in gastric cancer specimen.

Clinicopathologicalvariable	Number	p-AKT1 expression			p-4E-BP1 expression
		High	Low	p value	High	Low	p value
Age (years)				0.094			0.518
≥55	46	30	16		29	17
<55	34	21	23		19	15
Gender				0.368			0.054
Male	51	30	21		22	29
Female	29	20	9		19	10
Histological grade				0.001*			0.027*
Well/moderate	36	13	23		14	22
Poorly	44	32	12		28	16
Depth of invasion				0.001*			0.000*
T1/T2	39	18	21		13	26
T3/T4	41	34	7		30	11
Lymph node metastasis				0.000*			0.000*
NO	38	10	28		15	23
YES	42	32	10		33	9
Distant metastasis				0.015*			0.009*
NO	53	22	31		25	28
YES	27	19	8		21	6

The associations between protein expression and clinicopathological variables were estimated using the chi-squared test.

*Significant at the level of p<0.05.