Table 3.

Correlation between miR‐144‐3p expression and clinicopathological features in LUAD patients

Parameters	Group	Total	miR‐144‐3p		P value
			Low	High
Gender	Male	21	13	8	0.097
	Female	10	3	7
Age	<60	19	9	10	0.756
	≥60	12	5	7
Tumor size	<3 cm	8	6	2	0.260
	≥3 cm	23	12	11
Differentiation	Well	9	5	4	0.457
	Moderate‐poor	22	9	13
TNM stage	I+II	15	10	5	0.020a
	III+IV	16	4	12
Lymph node metastasis	Absence	22	8	14	0.036a
	Presence	9	7	2

LUAD, lung adenocarcinoma.

^a P < 0.05.