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. 2019 Dec 10;7:e8188. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8188

Table 2. Clinicopathological characteristics in 117 lung cancer patients with platinum- based chemotherapy.

RASBs renin-angiotensin system blockers; ACEIs angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors; ARBs angiotensin-2 receptor 1 blockers; SD standard deviation; NSCLC non-small cell lung cancer; SCLC small cell lung cancer.

Characteristic Non- RASBs, n = 79 RASBs
Total, n = 38 P-valuea ACEIs, n = 20 P-valuea ARBs, n = 18 P-valuea
Gender, n (%)
Male 62 (78.5) 26 (68.4) 0.238 13 (65.0) 0.335 13 (72.2) 0.795
Female 17 (21.5) 12 (31.6) 7 (35.0) 5 (27.8)
Age, years, n (%)
Mean ± SD 62.96 ± 8.02 61.08 ± 7.89 0.995 61.35 ± 6.60 0.439 60.78 ± 9.31 0.425
≤60 27 (34.2) 17 (44.7) 0.269 10 (50.0) 0.191 7 (38.9) 0.705
>60 52 (65.8) 21 (55.3) 10 (50.0) 11 (61.1)
Smoking status, n (%)
Never 26 (32.9) 18 (47.4) 0.131 9 (45.0) 0.312 9 (50.0) 0.173
Ever 53 (67.1) 20 (52.6) 11 (55.0) 9 (50.0)
Histology, n (%)
NSCLC 60 (75.9) 31 (81.6) 0.567 16 (80.0) 0.766 15 (83.3) 0.543
Adenocarcinoma 43 (54.4) 19 (50.0) 11 (55.0) 8 (44.4)
Squamous 17 (21.5) 12 (31.6) 5 (25.0) 7 (38.9)
SCLC 18 (22.8) 7 (18.4) 4 (20.0) 3 (16.7)
Others 1 (1.3) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Tumor size, n (%)
Mean ± SD 45.95 ± 19.39 49.55 ± 21.27 0.372 49.61 ± 17.99 0.797 49.47 ± 25.33 0.094
≤3 cm 18 (22.8) 6 (15.8) 0.482 2 (10.0) 0.196 4 (22.2) 0.849
>3 cm 56 (70.9) 27 (71.0) 16 (80.0) 11 (61.1)
Unknown 5 (6.3) 5 (13.2) 2 (10.0) 3 (16.7)
Pathological grade, n (%)
Well 2 (2.5) 3 (7.9) 0.305 3 (15.0) 0.107 0 (0) 0.690
Moderately 14 (17.7) 7 (18.4) 4 (20.0) 3 (16.7)
Poorly 29 (36.7) 10 (26.3) 5 (25.0) 5 (27.8)
Unknown 34 (43.1) 18 (47.4) 8 (40.0) 10 (55.5)

Notes.

a

Each group was separately compared with the Non-RASBs group.