Table 1.
Characteristics of patients and healthy volunteers
| Characteristics | PC patients (n = 114) |
Patients with BPDs (n = 94) |
HVs (n = 120) |
Χ2 | p value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | % | No | % | No | % | |||
| Age (years) | ||||||||
|
Median (range) |
59 (40–82) |
56 (31–83) |
60 (37–84) |
0.642 | ||||
| Sex | ||||||||
| Female | 36 | 31.6 | 27 | 28.7 | 36 | 30 | 6.183 | 0.792 |
| Male | 78 | 68.4 | 67 | 71.3 | 84 | 70 | 0.169 | 0.572 |
| High sugar diet | 54 | 47.3 | 15 | 16.1 | 24 | 20 | 4.097 | 0.043* |
| Smoker | 60 | 52.6 | 11 | 11.7 | 26 | 21.7 | 5.653 | 0.017* |
| Alcohol consumption | 6 | 5.26 | 5 | 5.3 | 6 | 5 | 0.002 | 0.966 |
| Family history of PC | 15 | 13.2 | 7 | 7.4 | 6 | 5 | 0.924 | 0.336 |
| Location | ||||||||
| Head | 81 | 71.1 | ||||||
| Body/rear | 33 | 28.9 | ||||||
| Histologic grade | ||||||||
| I | 12 | 10.5 | ||||||
| II | 84 | 73.7 | ||||||
| I–II | 18 | 15.8 | ||||||
| Tumor size (cm) | ||||||||
| Median | 3.94 | |||||||
| Range | 1–6 | |||||||
| LNM | ||||||||
| Positive | 42 | 36.8 | ||||||
| Negative | 54 | 47.3 | ||||||
| Unknown | 18 | 15.9 | ||||||
| PNI | ||||||||
| Positive | 109 | 95.6 | ||||||
| Negative | 5 | 4.4 | ||||||
| Tumor stages (TS) | ||||||||
| 1b | 9 | 7.8 | ||||||
| 2a | 21 | 18.4 | ||||||
| 2b | 15 | 13.1 | ||||||
| 3 | 18 | 15.8 | ||||||
| 4 | 51 | 44.9 | ||||||
BPDs, benign pancreatic diseases; LNM, lymph node metastasis; PNI, perineural invasion; HVs, healthy volunteers
*Depicts results were significant at p < 0.05