Table 1.

Associations of miR-18a with the clinical pathology features of HCC patients

Features	Total	miR-18a expression		P-value
	N=123	High	Low
Gender				0.835
Male	97	47	50
Female	26	12	14
Age, year				0.945
≤50	33	16	17
>50	90	43	47
AFP				0.023*
<400 ng/mL	30	9	21
≥400 ng/mL	93	50	43
TNM stage				<0.001
I–II	62	7	55
III–IV	61	52	9
Tumor size				<0.001
≤5 cm	53	6	47
>5 cm	70	53	17
Intrahepatic vascular invasion				<0.001
Yes	64	45	19
No	59	14	45

Note:

^*P<0.05.

Abbreviations: AFP, alpha-fetoprotein; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; miR-18a, microRNA-18a.