Table III.
Characteristics of gastric cancer patients in association with miR-21-5p expression levels.
| Parameter | Total (n) | miR-21-5p
|
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low expression (n) | High expression (n) | |||
| Age at diagnosis (years) | 0.234 | |||
| <60 | 20 | 12 | 8 | |
| ≥60 | 26 | 11 | 15 | |
| Sex | 0.375 | |||
| Male | 25 | 14 | 11 | |
| Female | 21 | 9 | 12 | |
| Differentiation | 0.017a | |||
| Well | 16 | 9 | 7 | |
| Moderate | 16 | 10 | 6 | |
| Poor | 14 | 2 | 12 | |
| Metastasis | 0.013a | |||
| Yes | 22 | 4 | 18 | |
| No | 24 | 14 | 10 | |
| Tumor-nodes-metastasis stage | 0.047a | |||
| I+II | 30 | 20 | 10 | |
| III+IV | 16 | 5 | 11 | |
a
Determined by a two-sided Fisher's exact test. miR, microRNA.