Table 1.

The correlations of PCED1B-AS1 with clinicopathological features of patients with gastric cancer

Characteristics	Patients(n)	PCED1B-AS1expression		P values
		Low expression (n = 21)	High expression (n = 27)
Age (years)
≤ 60	32	12	20	0.217
> 60	16	9	7
Tumor size (cm)
≤ 5	16	11	5	0.014*
> 5	32	10	22
Gender
Male	31	12	19	0.342
Female	17	9	8
TNM stage
I – II	27	16	11	0.014*
III–IV	21	5	16
Tumor differentiation
Well + moderate	29	14	15	0.435
Poor	19	7	12
Lymph node metastasis
Absent	28	17	11	0.005**
Present	20	4	16
Distant metastasis
Absent	21	8	13	0.486
Present	27	13	14

*P < 0.05.