Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of patients with different stages of gastric carcinogenesis

Group	n	Gender		Age, years (mean ± SD)
		Male	Female
CNAG	38	19	19	50.16±11.02
IM	43	21	22	54.26±9.06
Dys	40	21	19	53.63±10.55
GC	45	23	22	56.80±12.14
Total	166	84	82	53.86±11.01

Abbreviations: CNAG, chronic non-atrophic gastritis; IM, intestinal metaplasia; Dys, dysplasia; GC, gastric cancer.