Plasma Levels of Monocyte Chemotactic Protein-1 Are Associated with Clinical Features and Angiogenesis in Patients with Multiple Myeloma

Table 1

Clinical features of patients with multiple myeloma (MM) and healthy volunteers.

Clinical features	Patients with MM; ()	Healthy controls; ()
Age and sex distribution	Cases	Cases
Male	22	12
Female	23	12
Age (years)	Median 69	Median 67
	Range 44–86	Range 35–83
Plasma cell percentage
Median	69
Range	15–97
Durie-Salmon stage	Cases
I	8
II	9
III	28
Renal dysfunction	Cases
Yes	16
No	28
Anemia	Cases
Yes	35
No	9
Bone disease	Cases
Yes	31
No	14

Renal dysfunction = serum creatinine level above the upper limit of normal; anemia = hemoglobin value 20 g/L below the lower limit of normal; bone disease = presence of any lytic lesion or severe osteopenia with compressive fractures on standard bone radiographs.