Table 1.

Correlation Between Clinicopathological Features Of Patients With HCC And NEAT1, miRNA-22-3p, And AKT2 Expressions. *P<0.05

	N	NEAT1		P value	miRNA-22-3p		P value	AKT2		P value
Low	High	Low	High	Low	High
All cases	47	24	23		22	25		24	23
Age (years)				0.385			0.411			0.401
< 65	21	11	10		10	11		12	9
≥ 65	26	14	12		13	13		14	12
Gender				0.147			0.214			0.199
Male	25	12	13		14	11		13	12
Female	22	14	8		6	16		12	10
TNM stage				0.612			0.517			0.042*
I-II	23	13	10		10	13		9	14
III-IV	24	11	13		12	12		6	18
Histological grade				0.268			0.209			0.254
Low	22	9	13		12	10		10	12
High	25	12	13		13	12		13	12
Tumor size (cm)				0.014*			0.028*			0.031*
< 3	18	8	10		9	9		8	10
≥ 3	29	9	20		19	10		10	19
Lymph node metastasis				0.089			0.103			0.112
No	22	11	11		11	11		10	12
Yes	25	12	13		14	11		12	13
Differentiation				0.023*			0.032*			0.019*
High	23	7	16		14	9		8	15
Moderate	11	5	6		5	6		4	7
Low	13	6	7		8	5		6	7
Liver cirrhosis				0.104			0.110			0.138
No	23	10	13		12	11		11	12
Yes	24	12	12		12	12		13	11
AFP				0.077			0.089			0.109
< 20 ng/mL	19	11	8		9	10		10	9
>20 ng/mL	28	13	15		15	13		14	14