Table 2.

The characteristics of the 468 patients grouped by NLR, PLR and MLR

	Cases (number, %)	NLR (number)		P value	PLR (number)		P value	MLR (number)		P value
	468 (100)	<2.27	≥2.27		<117.05	≥117.05		<0.19	≥0.19
Gender				0.005*			0.172			0.223
Male	376 (80.3)	266	126		259	117		238	138
Female	92 (19.7)	75	17		56	36		65	27
Age (years)				0.349			0.490			0.562
≤60	247 (52.8)	175	72		170	77		163	84
>60	221 (47.2)	166	55		145	76		140	81
Smoking				0.917			0.428			0.560
Ever	209 (44.7)	153	56		145	64		132	77
Never	259 (55.3)	188	71		170	89		171	88
Drinking				0.287			0.615			0.921
Yes	286 (61.1)	203	83		195	91		186	100
No	182 (38.9)	138	44		120	62		117	65
Tumor length				0.020*			0.128			0.010*
≤3	70 (15)	59	11		53	17		55	15
>3	398 (85)	282	116		262	136		248	150
Tumor location				0.670			0.922			0.670
Upper	62 (13.2)	47	15		43	19		47	15
Middle	228 (48.7)	162	66		152	76		162	66
Lower	178 (38.0)	132	46		120	58		132	46
Differentiation				0.274			0.972			0.260
Well	123 (26.3)	92	31		82	41		87	36
Moderate	233 (49.8)	174	59		158	75		147	86
Poor	112 (23.9)	75	37		75	37		69	43
T stage				0.010*			0.727			0.024*
T1	46 (9.8)	41	5		32	14		34	12
T2	77 (16.5)	49	28		54	23		47	30
T3	274 (58.5)	204	70		185	89		186	88
T4	71 (15.2)	47	24		44	27		36	35
N stage				0.988			0.634			0.398
N0	238 (50.9)	173	65		156	82		158	80
N1	129 (27.6)	95	34		91	38		86	43
N2	74 (15.8)	54	20		48	26		45	29
N3	27 (5.8)	19	8		20	7		14	13
TNM stage				0.204			0.278			0.228
I	46 (9.8)	38	8		33	13		35	11
II	199 (42.5)	139	60		126	73		125	74
III	223 (47.6)	164	59		156	67		143	80
Operation time (min)				0.077			0.163			0.696
<200	200 (42.9)	153	47		142	58		132	68
≥200	268 (57.1)	188	80		173	95		171	97
Intraoperative blood loss (ml)				0.253			1.000			0.698
<200	220 (47.0)	166	54		148	72		140	80
≥200	248 (53.0)	175	73		167	81		163	85

^*P less than 0.05 is significant.

NLR = neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio; PLR = platelet-lymphocyte ratio; MLR = monocyte-lymphocyte ratio.