Table 1.

Relationship Between Circ-OXCT1 Expression and Clinicopathological Features in GC Patients

Clinicopathological Features	N (74)	Circ-OXCT1		χ2	P value
		Low	High
Age (years)				0.525	0.630
<60	27	12	15
≥60	47	25	22
Gender				0.216	0.816
Male	38	18	20
Female	36	19	17
Tumor size (cm)				0.294	0.787
<2	18	10	8
≥2	56	27	29
Cell differentiation				0.702	0.704
Well	19	8	11
Moderately	35	18	17
Poorly	20	11	9
Borrmann classification				0.704	0.872
I	11	6	5
II	36	18	17
III	19	8	11
IV	9	5	4
Lymphatic node metastasis				6.167	0.024*
N0	24	7	17
N1–N3	50	30	20
Pathological stages				6.852	0.017*
I/II	20	5	15
III/IV	54	32	22

Notes: P<0.05 indicates significance, χ2 test or Fisher’s exact test; *statistically significant, with median circ-OXCT1 values used as cut-off values.