Variations of Tongue Coating Microbiota in Patients with Gastric Cancer

Table 1

General characteristics and tongue coating thickness of all subjects.

	Normal controls ()	Gastric cancer patients ()
Male,	35	37	0.834
Age (mean ± SD), years	54.55 ± 9.63	57.46 ± 8.43	0.464
BMI (mean ± SD), kg/m^2	22.16 ± 2.14	23.13 ± 3.14	0.530
Habit of smoking,	12	15	0.848
Habit of drinking,	15	16	0.902
Diabetes,	1	2	0.959
Hypertension,	5	5	0.850
Thickness of the tongue coating	98.42 ± 48.25	343.11 ± 198.22	<0.001

values were based on -tests (two-sided) and analysis or Fisher’s exact tests.