Table 4.

Circulating resistin levels in TNM patients with colorectal cancer.

Studies	Sample size	Stage 0	Stage I	Stage II	Stage III	Stage IV	p value	Detection methods
Nakajima et al. 2010 [23]	115	1.3 ± 0.5	1.6 ± 0.5	1.5 ± 0.5	1.5 ± 0.6	1.7 ± 0.5	<0.01	ELISA
Gonullu et al. 2010 [26]	33	—	—	6.01 ± 3.18	7.37 ± 3.58	5.79 ± 3.96	—	ELISA
Kumor et al. 2009 [24]	36	—	5.86 ± 3.1		6.79 ± 2.41		>0.05	ELISA