Table 1. Epidemiologic characteristics of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County.
| Variables | Cohort (N=270) | Alive (N=213) | Deceased (N=57) | **P value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean/N | SD/% | Mean/N | SD/% | Mean/N | SD/% | ||||
| †Age (years) | 58.5 | 8.9 | 58.6 | 9.4 | 58.2 | 7.4 | 0.760 | ||
| *≥65 (years) | 59 | 21.9 | 50 | 23.4 | 9 | 15.8 | 0.212 | ||
| *Gender | 0.028 | ||||||||
| Female | 50 | 18.5 | 46 | 21.6 | 5 | 8.8 | |||
| Male | 220 | 81.4 | 167 | 78.4 | 52 | 91.2 | |||
| *Past medical history | |||||||||
| Diabetes | 89 | 32.9 | 77 | 36.2 | 12 | 21.1 | 0.031 | ||
| Hypertension | 126 | 6.7 | 103 | 48.3 | 23 | 40.4 | 0.282 | ||
| Cirrhosis | 229 | 84.8 | 180 | 84.5 | 49 | 85.9 | 0.785 | ||
| *Barcelona stage | 0.002 | ||||||||
| 0, A, B | 115 | 42.6 | 101 | 47.4 | 14 | 24.6 | |||
| C, D | 155 | 57.4 | 112 | 52.6 | 43 | 75.4 | |||
| *VTE | 16 | 5.9 | 9 | 4.2 | 7 | 12.3 | 0.022 | ||
| *Chemotherapy | 91 | 33.7 | 64 | 30.0 | 27 | 47.3 | 0.014 | ||
| *Curative treatment | 31 | 11.5 | 26 | 12.2 | 5 | 8.80 | 0.470 | ||
†, normally distributed continuous variable, presented as mean value and standard deviation; *, categorical variables, presented as number and percentage of patients; **, P value obtained with Student’s t-test for continuous values, Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables. N, number; SD, standard deviation.