Research Article
Expression of Serum Exosomal MicroRNA-21 in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Table 2
Correlations of patient clinicopathologic characteristics with exosomal miR-21 expression levels.
| Characteristics | | miR-21 expression | value1 | Low (%) | High (%) |
| Age (years) | | | | | <60 | 11 | 7 (63.6) | 4 (36.4) | 1.000 | ≥60 | 19 | 11 (57.9) | 8 (42.1) | Gender | | | | | Male | 23 | 13 (56.5) | 10 (43.5) | 0.669 | Female | 7 | 5 (71.4) | 2 (28.6) | HBsAg | | | | | Positive | 24 | 13 (54.2) | 11 (45.8) | 0.358 | Negative | 6 | 5 (83.3) | 1 (16.7) | Liver cirrhosis | | | | | Presence | 23 | 11 (47.8) | 12 (52.2) | 0.024 | Absence | 7 | 7 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | Tumor stage | | | | | I | 10 | 9 (90.0) | 1 (10.0) | 0.001 | II | 7 | 5 (71.4) | 2 (28.6) | III-IV | 13 | 4 (30.8) | 9 (69.2) |
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