Association of Interleukin-8 with Cachexia from Patients with Low-Third Gastric Cancer

Table 2

Characteristics of the cancer patients and controls.

	Cancer	Contr.
	(𝑛=125)	(𝑛=140)	𝑃
Sex (M/F)	83/42	99/41	.450^3
Age (year)	56.18 ± 11.78^1	54.24 ± 12.03	.185^2
Smoking status			0.563^3
never	41 (32.8%)	54 (38.6%)
Ex-	24 (19.2%)	22 (15.7%)
current	60 (48.0%)	64 (45.7%)
Helicobacter pylori infection	74 (59.2%)	76 (54.3%)	.420^3
Poor drinking water	18 (14.4%)	13 (9.3%)	.196^3

¹Mean ± SD (all such values). ²2-sample 𝑡 test. ³Pearson chi-square test.