Table 5 Association of severity of oral ulcer(s) and salivary apoptotic micro vesicles of enrolled patients.
Parameters | Groups | Spearman’s rank correlation | |
|---|---|---|---|
Characters of patients | Expression level of vascular endothelial growth factor C (µL) | Apoptotic micro vesicles (events/µL) | |
Numbers | 62 | 62 | p-value |
Minimum | 0.01 | 515 | < 0.001 (Spearman’s rank correlation test) |
Maximum | 0.25 | 1891 | |
Mean | 0.0481 | 1099.35 | |
Median | 0.0415 | 1038.5 | |
Standard deviation | 0.0311 | 415.08 | |
Standard error | 0.004 | 52.715 | |