Table 3.
The associations of LincRNA-p21 expression with demographic and clinical characteristics
| Parameters | Class | Expression pattern | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low expression | Normal | Over expression | |||
| Age | <60 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 0.561 |
| >60 | 17 | 8 | 10 | ||
| Tea | never | 27 | 11 | 10 | 0.745 |
| occasionally | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||
| often | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Smoking | light | 17 | 5 | 3 | 0.265 |
| middle | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||
| deep | 16 | 11 | 9 | ||
| Drinking | no | 24 | 10 | 10 | 0.148 |
| yes | 10 | 6 | 4 | ||
| Hot food | no | 15 | 9 | 6 | 0.333 |
| yes | 19 | 7 | 8 | ||
| Hard food | no | 21 | 11 | 10 | 0.319 |
| yes | 13 | 5 | 4 | ||
| Tumor site | upper | 26 | 13 | 0 | 1.000 |
| middle | 8 | 2 | 3 | ||
| lower | 3 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Lymph node metastasis | no | 23 | 8 | 20 | 0.472 |
| yes | 9 | 4 | 0 | ||