Table 5 Association of severity of oral ulcer(s) and salivary apoptotic micro vesicles of enrolled patients.

From: Salivary apoptotic microvesicles as biomarkers for prognostic non-healing oral ulcers and oral cancer: a cross-sectional study

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