Role of Serum Uric Acid as a Protective Biomarker in Patients with Different Histopathological Grades of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: a Case-Control Study

Table 1

Gender and age of participants, location of OSCC lesions, and histopathological tumor grade.

	Case	Control	value
Gender
Male	20 (50%)	20 (50%)	1
Female	20 (50%)	20 (50%)
Age (years)			0.244
Tumor location	Number (percentage)
Tongue	20 (50%)
Buccal mucosa	10 (25%)
Lower lip	5 (12.5%)
Floor of the mouth	3 (7.5%)
Upper lip	2 (5%)
Total	40 (100%)
Histopathologic grade	Number (percentage)
Well differentiated	18 (45%)
Moderately differentiated	14 (35%)
Poorly differentiated	8 (20%)
Undifferentiated	0
Total	40 (100%)