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Table 2 The association between inhibin expression and clinicopathological characteristics of studied colonic lesions

From: The association of p21, inhibin, and Tob-1 expression with the clinicopathological characteristics of benign and malignant colorectal lesions

Variables	Inhibin expression
Variables	Positive no. (%)	Negative no. (%)	p-value
Age (in years)	54.04 ± 17.05	52.76 ± 16.23	0.73
Age categories
≤ 50 years (45)	8 (17.8)	37 (82.2)	0.53
> 50 years (95)	16 (16.8)	79 (83.2)	0.53
Sex
Female (61)	13 (21.3)	48 (78.7)	0.18
Male (79)	11 (14)	68 (86))	0.18
CRC (30)	0	30 (100)
Adenomas (30)	4 (13.3)	26 (86.7)	0.06^*
LGD (14)	0	14 (100)
HGD (16)	4 (25)	12 (75)
UC (30)	8 (26.7)	22 (73.3)	0.002^*
No dysplasia (23)	5 (21.7)	18 (78.3)	0.26
With dysplasia (7)	3 (43)	4 (57)	0.26
Chronic colitis (30)	12 (40)	18 (60)	0.001^*
Control (20)	0	20 (100)
Total = 140	24 (17)	116 (83)

LGD low-grade dysplasia, HGD high-grade dysplasia, UC ulcerative colitis, CRC Colorectal cancer, no. number of cases, %; percentage
^*p-value compared to CRCs

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