Precancerous Gastric Lesions with Helicobacter pylori vacA⁺/babA2⁺/oipA⁺ Genotype Increase the Risk of Gastric Cancer

Table 2

Demographic characteristics.

	Chronic	Precancerous lesions	Gastric cancer	value
	(n = 44)	(n = 52)	(n = 70)
Age: mean	43 ± 1.6	46 ± 2.4	52 ± 1.2	0.192
Gender: male/female (%)	63.6/32.4	46.2/43.8	45.2/44.8	0.082
Pathological characteristic of gastric cancer patients (n = 70)
Location of tumor n (%)
Upper				12 (17.15)
Middle				36 (51.42)
Lower				22 (31.43)
Tumor size n (%)
<70 mm				18 (25.72)
≥70 mm				52 (74.28)
Histologic type n (%)
Differentiated				54 (77.14)
Undifferentiated				16 (22.86)
Lymphatic invasion n (%)
Absent				46 (65.71)
Present				24 (34.29)
Vascular invasion n (%)
Absent				62 (88.57)
Present				8 (11.43)
Pathological T stage n (%)
T1-T2				22 (31.43)
T3-T4				48 (68.57)
Pathological TNM stage n (%)
I				8 (11.43)
II				14 (20.0)
III				36 (51.43)
IV				12 (17.14)
Residual tumor n (%)
No residual tumor				52 (74.28)
Microscopic				6 (8.57)
Gross (unresectable)				12 (17.14)
CEA n (%)
<5.0 (ng/ml)				42 (60.0)
≥5.0 (ng/ml)				28 (34.29)

Comparisons between the groups were done by using ANOVA. considered as statistically significant.