Table 1. Basic characteristics of patients and association between the expression of APOC1 and clinicopathologic characteristics in GC tissues.

Characteristics	APOC1		P value
	Low (score ≤1), N=26	High (>1), N=130
Age (year, mean ± SD)			0.132
<60	20	74
≥60	6	56
Gender			0.352
Male	16	91
Female	10	39
Stage			0.011
I	6	18
II	18	91
III	2	21
IV	–	–
T-stage			0.010
T1	1	3
T2	6	19
T3	18	98
T4	1	10
Lymph node metastasis			0.048
With	5	46
Without	21	84

APOC1, apolipoprotein C1; GC, gastric cancer.