Table 1.

Relationship between circ-SCMH1 expression and clinicopathologic features of OSCC patients

	Characteristics (n = 62)	circ-SCMH1 expression		P valuea
		Low (n = 31)	High (n = 31)
Gender				0.7972
Female	36	17	19
Male	26	14	12
Age (years)				0.2831
≤ 50	21	13	8
> 50	41	18	23
TNM grade				0.0046*
I + II	28	20	8
III + IV	34	11	23
Lymph node metastasis				0.0395*
Positive	35	13	22
Negative	27	18	9

OSCC oral squamous cell carcinoma, TNM tumor node metastasis

*P < 0.05

^aChi-square test