Table 2. Characteristics of 56 patients with NSCLC by miR-137 expression levels.
| Characteristics | miR-137 expression levels | Pa | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expression value of miR-137 | Low, N | High, N | ||
| Gender | 0.388 | |||
| Male | 329.3±241.0 | 21 | 22 | |
| female | 265.4±195.5 | 7 | 6 | |
| Age, years | 0.362 | |||
| <60 | 327.1±251.7 | 13 | 11 | |
| ≥60 | 305.0±218.2 | 15 | 17 | |
| Smoking status | 0.032 | |||
| 0 | 412.5±262.6 | 7 | 11 | |
| <1 pack/day | 340.1±252.4 | 6 | 7 | |
| ≥1 pack/day | 230.4±163.9 | 15 | 10 | |
| Histological type | 0.288 | |||
| Adenocarcinoma | 344.2±252.3 | 15 | 16 | |
| Squamous cell | 277.6±200.9 | 13 | 12 | |
| T-status | 0.053 | |||
| T1 | 383.2±241.4 | 11 | 19 | |
| T2 | 239.3±200.3 | 14 | 7 | |
| T3 | 217.4±187.0 | 3 | 2 | |
| T4 | – | 0 | 0 | |
| N-status | 0.010 | |||
| N0 | 378.0±222.7 | 12 | 19 | |
| N1 | 312.4±265.3 | 7 | 7 | |
| N2 | 137.8±83.0 | 9 | 2 | |
| N3 | - | 0 | 0 | |
| TNM | 0.015 | |||
| I | 399.6±230.8 | 9 | 17 | |
| II | 285.0±202.2 | 9 | 8 | |
| III | 182.5±209.0 | 10 | 3 | |
| IV | - | 0 | 0 | |
| Differentiation | 0.272 | |||
| Well | 415.9±220.2 | 4 | 7 | |
| Moderate | 290.2±218.2 | 18 | 16 | |
| Poor | 288.0±272.9 | 6 | 5 | |
a, P values for one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests. Data were presented as mean ± SD. NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; T-status, tumor status; N-status, nodes status; TNM, tumor-nodes-metastases; SD, standard deviation.