Table 2.

Association of clinical characteristics with cancer risk in CRC patients

	CRC (n=163)	Control (n=142)	P-value
Age (years)
≤60	79	66
>60	84	76	0.729
Sex
Male	93	93
Female	70	49	0.132
Smoking
Yes	32	36
No	131	106	0.231
Obesity
Yes	12	18
No	151	124	0.120
Alcohol consumption
Yes	27	30
No	136	112	0.308
Tumor stage, TNM
I	9
II	82
III	53
IV	19

Abbreviation: CRC, colorectal cancer.