Table I.

Association between miR-548b expression and clinical features of HCC patients.

	miR-548b expression
Clinical features	Low	High	χ2 value	P-value
Age (years)			0.481	0.488
<55	15	12
≥55	11	13
Sex			0.157	0.692
Female	8	9
Male	18	16
Tumor size (cm)			3.296	0.069
<5	9	15
≥5	17	10
Differentiation			0.184	0.668
Well and moderate	13	14
Poor	13	11
TNM stage			4.581	0.032
I–II	11	18
III–IV	15	7
Lymph node metastasis			4.763	0.029
Negative	12	19
Positive	14	6