Table IV.
Clinical association between D-dimer level and clinicopathological variables of colon cancer patients.
| Cases with low and high D-dimer level, n (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Cases (n=153) | Low | High | P-value |
| Age, years | 0.7127 | |||
| ≥60 | 113 | 64 (56.6) | 49 (43.4) | |
| <60 | 40 | 21 (52.5) | 19 (47.5) | |
| Gender | 0.0145 | |||
| Male | 73 | 48 (65.8) | 25 (34.2) | |
| Female | 80 | 36 (45.0) | 44 (55.0) | |
| Metastasis | 0.0120 | |||
| Positive | 119 | 51 (42.9) | 68 (57.1) | |
| Negative | 34 | 23 (67.7) | 11 (32.3) | |
| TNM stage | 0.0039 | |||
| I&II | 17 | 15 (88.2) | 2 (11.8) | |
| III&IV | 136 | 70 (51.5) | 66 (48.5) | |
TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.