Research Article
Paradoxical Association of Postoperative Plasma Sphingosine-1-Phosphate with Breast Cancer Aggressiveness and Chemotherapy
Table 1
Patient characteristics.
| | Breast cancer patients () | Control () | value |
| | Age, years (SD) | 51.2 (9.8) | 51.3 (6.9) | 0.99 | | BMI, kg/m2 (SD) | 30.3 (7.6) | 29.1 (7.4) | 0.49 | | Ethnicity (%) | | | 0.94 | Caucasian
African American
Hispanic
Other | 92 (58.2)
53 (33.5)
6 (3.8)
7 (4.4) | 13 (65.0)
6 (30.0)
1 (5.0)
0 | | | Tobacco use (%) | 30 (19.0) | 1 (5.0) | 0.12 | | Alcohol use (%) | 81 (51.2) | 15 (75.0) | 0.045 | | Postmenopausal (%) | 89 (56.3) | 11 (55.0) | 0.91 | | Mean S1P, pmol/mL (SD) | 1221.7 (439.4) | 1139 (259.7) | 0.412 |
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