Table 2.

The clinical characteristics of subjects with and without gastric cancer, colorectal cancer and gastrointestinal cancers

	Age median (quartile)	P value	Male, n (%)	Female, n (%)	P value
Gastric cancer	61 (51, 68)	< 0.001	268 (68.4)	124 (31.6)	0.084
Non-gastric cancer	48 (42, 56)		20831 (64.2)	11634 (35.8)
Colorectal cancer	62 (55, 70)	< 0.001	522 (58.5)	370 (41.5)	< 0.001
Non-colorectal cancer	48 (42, 55)		20577 (64.4)	11388 (35.6)
Gastrointestinal cancer	62 (53, 69)	< 0.001	816 (62.4)	491 (37.6)	0.170
Non-gastrointestinal cancer	48 (42, 55)		20283 (64.3)	11267 (35.7)

The P value was calculated with the Wilcoxon test for age and chi-square test for sex. The bold font indicates that the P value was less than 0.05.