Table V.
Clinical association between D-dimer level and clinicopathological variables of rectal cancer patients.
| Cases with low and high D-dimer level, n (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Cases (n=137) | Low | High | P-value |
| Age, years | 0.8477 | |||
| ≥60 | 100 | 48 (48.0) | 52 (52.0) | |
| <60 | 37 | 19 (51.4) | 18 (48.6) | |
| Gender | 1 | |||
| Male | 81 | 40 (49.4) | 41 (50.6) | |
| Female | 56 | 27 (48.2) | 29 (51.8) | |
| Metastasis | 0.0104 | |||
| Positive | 109 | 47 (43.1) | 62 (56.9) | |
| Negative | 28 | 20 (71.4) | 8 (28.6) | |
| TNM stage | 0.0002 | |||
| I&II | 44 | 30 (68.2) | 14 (31.8) | |
| III&IV | 93 | 32 (34.4) | 61 (65.6) | |
TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.