Research Article

Association of LAMA1 Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms with Risk of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma among the Eastern Chinese Population

Table 1

Distribution of clinicopathological characteristics in the ESCC case and control groups.

CaseControlp value
(n = 1043)(n = 1143)

Age (median (IQR))63.00 (59.00, 68.00)63.00 (54.00, 70.00)0.257
Gender (%)
 Female285 (27.3)315 (27.6)0.941
 Male758 (72.7)828 (72.4)
Smoke status (%)
 No589 (56.5)803 (70.3)<0.001
 Former/current454 (43.5)340 (29.7)
Alcohol consumption (%)
 No714 (68.5)957 (83.7)<0.001
 Former/current329 (31.5)186 (16.3)
BMI (median (IQR))22.27 (20.20, 24.35)23.88 (21.89, 25.88)<0.001
Chronic disease (%)
 No797 (76.4)604 (52.8)<0.001
 Yes246 (23.6)539 (47.2)
  Hypertension (%)234 (22.4)416 (36.4)
  Diabetes (%)31 (3.0)216 (18.9)
  Cardiovascular disease (%)0 (0.0)59 (5.2)
pT stage (%)
 Tis1 (0.1)
 T1a33 (3.2)
 T1b112 (10.7)
 T2382 (36.6)
 T3513 (49.2)
 T42 (0.2)
pN stage (%)
 N0775 (74.3)
 N1201 (19.3)
 N245 (4.3)
 N322 (2.1)
Differentiation (%)
 High368 (35.3)
 Moderate537 (51.5)
 Low138 (13.2)

Data are no. (%) or mean (SD) or median (IQR); BMI: body mass index; pT stage: pathological T stage; pN stage: pathological N stage.