Table 1.

Demographic and clinicopathologic parameters of patients from different cohorts.

Parameters	The number of different cohorts			P values
	Patients with HCC (n=47)	Patients with cirrhosis (n-29)	Healthy controls (n=31)	miR-15b-5p	miR-338-5p	miR-764
Sex
Male	44	12	18
Female	3	17	13
Age (years)
≥60	7	5	0
<60	41	24	31
α-fetoprotein (ng/ml)				0.595	0.039	0.102
≥200	19
<200	28
Alanine aminotransferase (U/l)				0.312	0.822	0.875
≥40	31
<40	16
Aspartate aminotransferase (U/l)				0.718	0.555	0.768
≥40	29
<40	18
Total bilirubin(μmol/L)				0.644	0.426	0.54
≥17.1	20
<17.1	27
Child-Pugh grade				0.989	0.7	0.184
A	44
B	3
C	0
Tumor size (cm)				0.346	0.336	0.026
≥5	26
<5	21