Table II.

Correlation of resistin expression and clinicopathological characteristics.

	The expression of resistin in lung adenocarcinoma tissues
	(−), (+), (++), (+++)		Low expression group, high expression group
Clinicopathological characteristics	Correlation coefficient	P-value	Correlation coefficient	P-value
Sex	−0.036	0.768	−0.101	0.403
Age	0.199	0.099	−0.216	0.072
Smoking	0.191	0.425	0.049	0.686
Drinking	0.021	0.861	0.029	0.811
Blood type	−0.158	0.192	−0.097	0.425
Body mass index	−0.106	0.384	−0.077	0.527
Tumor size	0.307	0.010	0.237	0.048
Lymph node status	0.261	0.029	0.260	0.029
Clinical stage	0.408	<0.001	0.394	0.001
PFS	−0.419	<0.001	−0.379	0.001
OS	−0.429	<0.001	−0.416	<0.001

PFS, progression-free survival; OS, overall survival.