Table 2.
Correlation between miR-130b-3p expression and clinicopathological features of CRC patients
| Parameters | miR-130b-3p expression |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low n = 30 | High n = 30 | ||
| Gender | |||
| Male | 14 | 17 | 0.438 |
| Female | 16 | 13 | |
| Age | |||
| <60 | 20 | 23 | 0.390 |
| ≥60 | 10 | 7 | |
| Tumor diameter (cm) | |||
| ≤3 cm | 17 | 11 | 0.121 |
| >3 cm | 13 | 19 | |
| Distant metastasis | |||
| M0 | 27 | 16 | 0.002 |
| M1 | 3 | 14 | |
| Lymph node metastasis | |||
| N0 | 15 | 6 | 0.015 |
| N1-N3 | 15 | 24 | |
| Vascular invasion | |||
| Negative | 23 | 14 | 0.017 |
| Positive | 7 | 16 | |
| Degree of differentiation | |||
| High | 15 | 11 | 0.508 |
| Median | 10 | 11 | |
| Low | 5 | 8 | |
*p < 0.05 is considered significant. (Chi-squared test)