Research Article
Urinary Exosomal Long Noncoding RNA TERC as a Noninvasive Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker for Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma
Table 4
The characteristics of bladder urothelial carcinoma patients.
| Variables | Total | Expression of TERC | | value | High | Low |
| Age | | | | 0.82 | 0.3651 | ≤60 | 49 | 22 | 27 | | | >60 | 79 | 42 | 37 | | | Sex | | | | 3.099 | 0.0783 | Male | 98 | 44 | 54 | | | Female | 30 | 19 | 11 | | | TNM | | | | 1.315 | 0.2515 | Ta~T1 | 105 | 50 | 55 | | | T2~T4 | 23 | 14 | 9 | | | Grade | | | | 5.88 | 0.0153a | Low | 20 | 5 | 15 | | | High | 108 | 59 | 49 | | | Lymphatic metastasis | | | | 1.026 | 0.3110 | Negative | 110 | 53 | 57 | | | Positive | 18 | 11 | 7 | | | Recurrence | | | | 1.233 | 0.2668 | Primary | 103 | 54 | 49 | | | Recurrent | 25 | 10 | 15 | | |
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