Table I.

Clinicopathological characteristics and miR-140-5p expression in CRC.

		miR-140 expression
Characteristics	Cases (n=36)	High	Low	P-value
Age (years)				0.3173
≥60	20	8	12
<60	16	6	10
Tumor size (cm)				0.6276
≥5	19	9	10
<5	17	8	9
Sex				0.1213
Male	21	9	12
Female	15	6	9
TNM stage				0.0005a
I+II	24	7	17
III+IV	12	5	7
Lymph node metastasis				0.005a
Yes	23	6	17
No	13	3	10

Statistical analyses were performed by the χ² test. CRC, colorectal carcinoma; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.

^aP<0.05 was considered significant.