Table 2. Baseline clinical characteristics of DLBCL patients with different IRF8 expression.

Variable	IRF8 in tumor tissues
	Low (n=41)	High (n=26)
Age (years)
<50	15	10
≥50	26	16
P value	0.552
Gender
Male	25	15
Female	16	11
P value	0.485
Ann Arbor stagea
I-II	11	7
III-IV	30	19
P value	0.392
IPI scoreb
1-3	28	19
4-5	13	7
P value	0.241

^aAnn Arbor stage according to Ann Arbor-Cotswald stage (1989).

^bIPI score, International Prognostic Index score.