The Changing Epidemiology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma :  Experience of a Single Center

Table 1

Mean age and M/F ratio of HCC patients of the two periods globally and divided according to etiology.

	Group 1			Group 2			<
	n	M/F	Age	n	M/F	Age
	132	82/50	69.0 ± 8.0	120	83/37	71.0 ± 9.0	0.05
HCV	106	62/44	70.1 ± 7.3	78	48/30	72.1 ± 7.7	0.05
HBV	11	10/1	68.4 ± 3.1	10	9/1	67.0 ± 7.2	ns
B/C	3	2/1	71.3 ± 3.3	2	1/1	58.1 ± 10.2	ns
N. vir.	12	8/4	69.0 ± 9.0	7	7/0	70.0 ± 9.01	ns