Research Article

ROMA Index Is an Effective Predictor for Advanced Endometrial Cancer before Surgery

Table 1

Characteristics of patients in the training and validation datasets.

CharacteristicsTraining datasetValidation dataset
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Age, median (IQR)55 (50, 61)55 (51, 61)0.9354 (49, 58)55.5 (50, 63)0.65
Menopause no. (%)0.400.74
 No55 (33.1)12 (41.4)15 (29)4 (33)
 Yes111 (66.9)17 (58.6)37 (71)8 (67)
Sterilization no. (%)0.241.00
 No128 (77.1)19 (65.5)40 (77)10 (83)
 Yes38 (22.9)10 (34.5)12 (23)2 (17)
Parity, median (IQR)1 (1, 2)2 (1, 2)0.661 (1, 2)1 (1, 1.5)0.59
BMI, median (IQR)24.7 (22.6, 27.6)24.9 (23.6, 27.7)0.3524.3 (22.3, 27.6)22.5 (21.7, 25.2)0.11
Hypertension no. (%)0.830.27
 No108 (65.1)20 (69.0)38 (73)11 (92)
 Yes58 (34.9)9 (31.0)14 (27)1 (8)
DM no. (%)0.380.31
 No143 (86.1)27 (93.1)48 (92)10 (83)
 Yes23 (13.9)2 (6.9)4 (8)2 (17)
Tumor size, median (IQR)2.4 (1.4)4.9 (2.2)<0.0012.7 (1.5)5.5 (2.7)<0.001
ROMA index no. (%)<0.001<0.001
 No142 (85.5)8 (27.6)46 (88)4 (33)
 Yes24 (14.5)21 (72.4)6 (12)8 (67)

Note: , not advanced endometrial cancer; , advanced endometrial cancer. Abbreviations: IQR: interquartile range; BMI: body mass index; DM: diabetes mellitus.