Table 1.
Patient characteristics
| Characteristics | Normotensive (N=64), N (%) |
Hypertensive (N=46), N (%) |
P-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age (range), years | 59 (52–81) | 67 (44–81) | 0.089 |
| Gender | 0.475 | ||
| Female | 15 (24.1) | 15 (33.3) | |
| Male | 49 (75.9) | 31 (66.7) | |
| Smoking history | 0.963 | ||
| Smoker | 51 (51.7) | 24 (52.4) | |
| Non-smoker | 13 (48.3) | 22 (47.6) | |
| ECOG PS | 0.152 | ||
| 0–1 | 37 (58.6) | 18 (38.1) | |
| ≥2 | 27 (41.4) | 28 (61.9) | |
| Pathological type | 0.307 | ||
| Adenocarcinoma | 40 (62.1) | 28 (61.9) | |
| Squamous carcinoma | 7 (10.3) | 11 (23.8) | |
| Other | 17 (27.6) | 7 (14.3) | |
| Location | 0.603 | ||
| Central | 20 (31) | 18 (38.1) | |
| Peripheral | 44 (69) | 28 (61.9) | |
| Line of apatinib | 0.352 | ||
| Second line | 26 (41.4) | 13 (28.6) | |
| Further line | 38 (58.6) | 33 (71.4) |
Abbreviation: ECOG PS, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status.