Table 1.

The baseline information of the 96 GBC patients enrolled in this study

Characteristics	Patient number
Age, years
≤60 years	50
>60 years	46
Gender
Male	56
Female	40
Diabetes mellitus
No	53
Yes	43
CA19-9a(U/mL)
≤37	47
>37	43
Tumor size (cm)
≤2.5	56
>2.5	40
Lymph node metastasis
No	54
Yes	42
Grade
Well-differentiated	21
Moderately differentiated	46
Poorly differentiated	29
TNM stage
I	43
II	42
III+IV	11

^aCA19-9 data are from 90 patients (data missing for 6 patients).