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. 2022 May 29;10(6):1268. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10061268

Table 4.

Correlation between clinicopathologic parameters and systemic inflammation markers.

Parameter No. NLR High (>1.76) PLR High (>159.45) SII High
(>548.95 × 109/L)
SIRI High
(>0.89 × 109/L)
(n = 159) p (n = 65) p (n = 101) p (n = 120) p
Age
  ≤55 134 84 (52.8%) 0.2970 33 (50.8%) 0.9140 53 (52.5%) 0.5604 67 (55.8%) 0.0964
  >55 135 75 (47.2%) 32 (49.2%) 48 (47.5%) 53 (44.2%)
Sex
  Male 173 52 (32.7%) 0.2195 22 (33.9%) 0.7219 32 (31.7%) 0.2878 34 (28.3%) 0.0239
  Female 96 107 (67.3%) 43 (66.2%) 69 (68.3%) 86 (71.7%)
Location
  Mobile Tongue 200 116 (73.0%) 0.5292 45 (69.2%) 0.2779 73 (72.3%) 0.5462 84 (70.0%) 0.1427
  Other 69 43 (27.0%) 20 (30.8%) 28 (27.7%) 36 (30.0%)
Depth of invasion
  ≤1 cm 165 93 (58.5%) 0.2489 30 (46.2%) 0.0039 55 (54.5%) 0.0723 66 (55.0%) 0.0554
  >1 cm 104 66 (41.5%) 35 (53.9%) 46 (45.5%) 54 (45.0%)
Lymphatic invasion
  Absent 196 112 (70.4%) 0.2828 45 (69.2%) 0.4496 65 (64.4%) 0.015 80 (66.7%) 0.0403
  Present 73 47 (29.6%) 20 (30.8%) 36 (35.6%) 40 (33.3%)
Vascular invasion
  Absent 261 105 (95.5%) 0.2783 198 (97.1%) 0.9553 99 (98.0%) 0.7141 119 (99.2%) 0.0789
  Present 8 5 (4.6%) 6 (2.9%) 2 (2.0%) 1 (0.8%)
Perineural invasion
  Absent 192 85 (77.3%) 0.0751 150 (73.5%) 0.1662 66 (65.3%) 0.0904 74 (63.3%) 0.0090
  Present 77 25 (22.7%) 54 (26.5%) 35 (34.7%) 44 (36.7%)
T stage
  T1 and T2 155 88 (55.4%) 0.3640 27 (41.5%) 0.0026 52 (51.5%) 0.1143 62 (51.7%) 0.0761
  T3 and T4 114 71 (44.7%) 38 (58.5%) 49 (48.5%) 58 (48.3%)
Lymph node metastasis
  Absent 176 75 (68.2%) 0.4295 40 (61.5%) 0.4490 60 (59.4%) 0.1074 72 (60.0%) 0.0930
  Present 93 35 (31.8%) 25 (38.5%) 41 (40.6%) 47 (40.0%)
Stage
I, II 128 69 (43.4%) 0.0983 22 (33.9%) 0.0109 37 (36.6%) 0.0053 47 (39.2%) 0.0131
III, IV 141 90 (56.0%) 43 (66.2%) 64 (63.4%) 73 (60.8%)
Distant metastasis
  Absent 254 152 (95.6%) 0.3132 60 (92.3%) 0.3932 95 (94.1%) 0.8400 115 (95.8%) 0.3659
  Present 15 7 (4.4%) 5 (7.7%) 6 (5.9%) 5 (4.2%)

NLR, neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio; PLR, platelet–lymphocyte ratio; SII, systemic inflammation index; SIRI, systemic inflammation response index.