Table 2.

Correlation between DPT expression and clinicopathologic characteristics of HCC patients

Characteristics DPT	DPT expression
	Low or none, no. cases	High, no. cases	p value
Age
<50	4	10	0.048
≥50	27	19
Gender
Male	26	23	0.648
Female	5	6
Alcoholism
Yes	12	4	0.029
No	19	25
Liver cirrhosis
Yes	17	18	0.570
No	14	11
AFP (ng/L)
<200	21	19	0.855
≥200	10	10
ALT (U/L)
<60	19	23	0.128
≥60	12	6
AST (U/L)
<40	18	22	0.144
≥40	13	7
Tumor number
Single	21	15	0.206
Multiple	10	14
Tumor size
<5cm	16	15	0.993
≥5cm	15	14
Portal vein invasion
Yes	5	8	0.282
No	26	21
TNM stage
I+II stage	25	27	0.156
III+IV stage	6	2

P values were calculated using chi-square test. Bold numbers indicate significant differences (P < 0.05). HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; AFP, α-fetoprotein; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; TNM, tumor node metastasis.