Pretreatment Serum Cystatin C Levels Predict Renal Function, but Not Tumor Characteristics, in Patients with Prostate Neoplasia

Table 2

The level of serum Cys-C in PCa patients with normal SCr.

Characteristics	(%)		value
Patients (n)
Age
≤70 y
>70 y
AKP
>125 U/L
≤125 U/L
LDH
>230 U/L
≤230 U/L
PSA
>5 ng/mL
≤5 ng/mL
Gleason score
≤5
6
7
8
9
10
Missing information		—
ECT (bone metastasis)
Yes
No
Possible		—
Unknown		—

SCr: serum creatinine; PCa: prostate cancer; Cys-C: cystatin C; ; : Gleason score ≤ 7 versus Gleason score > 7; : bone metastasis versus non-bone metastasis; : Student’s -test.