Table 2 Clinicopathologic characteristics of training and test cohorts.

From: Blood-borne miRNA profile-based diagnostic classifier for lung adenocarcinoma

Variable

Lung adenocarcinoma patients

Healthy subjects

Training

Test

p

Training

Test

p

No. of samples

143

110

 

49

52

 

Age at diagnosis (years)c

65.9 ± 9.8a

65.0 ± 9.9

0.494b

66.3 ± 8.9

65.7 ± 9.7

0.774b

Gender

Male

76

62

0.703c

28

30

1.000c

Female

67

48

 

21

22

 

pStage

I

80

65

0.273c

   

II

21

15

    

III

37

30

    

IV

5

0

    

Smoking historyd

728.2 ± 770.2 (n = 116)

634.4 ± 777.0 (n = 70)

0.424b

320.5 ± 578.3 (n = 48)

272.6 ± 459.6 (n = 51)

0.648b

  1. aAverage age ± S.D.
  2. bStudent’s t-test.
  3. cFisher’s exact test.
  4. dBrinkman Index.