Diagnostic and Prognostic Roles of Thrombospondin-2 in Digestive System Cancers

Table 5

Associations between TSP-2 and clinicopathological characteristics.

Clinicopathological characteristics	Number of studies	Patient ()	OR (95%CI)		Heterogeneity
					(%)
Gender (male vs. female)	5	638	1.08 (0.77-1.52)	0.640	4.7	0.380
Age (older vs. younger)	3	316	0.91 (0.57-1.47)	0.702	0.0	0.614
Tumor staging (III-IV vs. I-II)	3	407	2.26 (1.34-3.82)	0.002	35.6	0.212
Lymph node metastasis (+ vs. -)	3	330	1.10 (0.13-9.30)	0.930	89.7	≤0.001
Vascular invasion (+ vs. -)	3	274	1.31 (0.09-19.00)	0.843	83.1	0.003