Table 1.

Clinical Characteristic and OIP5-AS1 Expression of Patients with Thyroid Cancer, (n = 60)

Variable	OIP5-AS1 Expression		p Value
	Low	High
Age
<45	16	13	0.606
≥45	14	17
Gender
Male	11	14	0.601
Female	19	16
Pathological Type
Papillary adenocarcinoma	10	12	0.789
Follicular adenocarcinoma	20	18
Lymph Node Metastasis
No	19	10	0.038*
Yes	11	20
Tumor Size
<3 cm	20	22	0.779
≥3 cm	10	8
Clinical Stages
I/II	17	8	0.035*
III/IV	13	22

Low/high by the sample median. Pearson χ² test. *p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. The clinical data were evaluated by χ² test.