Research Article
Positive Expression of Retinol-Binding Protein 4 Is Related to the Malignant Clinical Features Leading to Poor Prognosis of Glioblastoma
Table 1
The correlations between clinical parameters and RBP4 expression in GBM.
| Variables | Patients | RBP4 expression | values | (n = 73) | Negative (n = 31) | Positive (n = 42) |
| Age (years) | ≤63 | 38 | 20 | 18 | 0.067 | >63 | 35 | 11 | 24 | | Sex | Female | 31 | 13 | 18 | 0.937 | Male | 42 | 18 | 24 | | Location | Parietal lobe | 13 | 5 | 8 | 0.909 | Temporal lobe | 25 | 12 | 13 | | Frontal lobe | 32 | 13 | 19 | | Unknown | 3 | 1 | 2 | | Tumor size | ≤4.3 cm | 38 | 27 | 14 | | >4.3 cm | 35 | 7 | 28 | | Surgery | Local resection | 39 | 15 | 24 | | Radical resection | 16 | 4 | 12 | | Lobectomy | 18 | 12 | 6 | | Chemotherapy | No | 61 | 25 | 36 | 0.564 | Yes | 12 | 6 | 6 | |
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Note. Statistically significant by the chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test. |