Table 6. Analysis of significance between different groups by mean ± standard deviation and single-factor variance in HE-stained pathological sections.
| Dependent variables | Degree of inflammation | Numbers of HE | Mean ± standard deviation | P values | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mild | Moderate | Severe | ||||
| Angle of mucosal folds (°) | Normal | 12 | 9.26±3.26 | 0.154 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Mild | 10 | 16.92±10.01 | 0.001 | 0.000 | ||
| Moderate | 11 | 63.35±27.04 | 0.129 | |||
| Severe | 19 | 89.80±36.01 | ||||
| Length of basilar part (ìm) | Normal | 12 | 55.48±15.68 | 0.014 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Mild | 10 | 88.45±25.43 | 0.005 | 0.000 | ||
| Moderate | 11 | 157.09±49.55 | 0.000 | |||
| Severe | 19 | 349.55±159.29 | ||||
| Area of submucosa (ìm2) | Normal | 12 | 11,917.70±4,021.05 | 0.067 | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Mild | 10 | 18,734.04±6,937.69 | 0.545 | 0.000 | ||
| Moderate | 11 | 23,051.86±7,732.64 | 0.000 | |||
| Severe | 19 | 54,115.23±25,978.43 | ||||
| Height of submucosa (ìm) | Normal | 12 | 26.87±7.55 | 0.936 | 0.953 | 0.005 |
| Mild | 10 | 24.89±8.24 | 1.000 | 0.003 | ||
| Moderate | 11 | 25.19±7.88 | 0.002 | |||
| Severe | 19 | 39.70±11.88 | ||||
| Thickness of muscularis (ìm) | Normal | 12 | 120.23±15.42 | 0.294 | 0.511 | 0.702 |
| Mild | 10 | 127.54±13.78 | 0.101 | 0.134 | ||
| Moderate | 11 | 115.79±13.37 | 0.724 | |||
| Severe | 19 | 117.95±18.71 | ||||
| Height of submucosa + thickness of muscularis (ìm) | Normal | 12 | 147.10±19.14 | 0.517 | 0.445 | 0.140 |
| Mild | 10 | 152.42±17.55 | 0.176 | 0.486 | ||
| Moderate | 11 | 140.98±16.12 | 0.025 | |||
| Severe | 19 | 157.65±21.10 | ||||
The significance level is set at α =0.05, and differences are significant when P<0.05.