Table II.
Clinical association between D-dimer level and clinicopathological variables of gastric cancer patients.
| Cases with low and high D-dimer level, n (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Cases (n=317) | Low | High | P-value |
| Age, years | 0.5337 | |||
| ≥60 | 171 | 119 (60.0) | 52 (40.0) | |
| <60 | 146 | 107 (69.4) | 39 (30.6) | |
| Gender | 0.4341 | |||
| Male | 208 | 145 (69.7) | 63 (30.7) | |
| Female | 109 | 81 (74.3) | 28 (25.7) | |
| Metastasis | <0.0001 | |||
| Positive | 215 | 117 (54.5) | 98 (45.6) | |
| Negative | 102 | 79 (77.5) | 23 (22.5) | |
| TNM stage | 0.0063 | |||
| I&II | 32 | 26 (84.2) | 6 (15.8) | |
| III&IV | 285 | 174 (61.1) | 111 (38.9) | |
TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.