Research Article
Clinical Evaluation of the Diagnostic Role of MicroRNA-155 in Breast Cancer
Table 5
Two-way ANOVA results for age, age of menarche, history of abortion, contraceptive drug usage, and BMI in the patient and control groups.
| Groups | Sample size | -fold | ǂ | ¥ (tumor vs. normal) | Control group | Cancer group |
| Age | | | | | | <48 y | 18 | 18 | | Age: 0.899ǂ | 0.925 | ≥48 y | 18 | 18 | | BC: <0.0001ǂ | 0.873 |
| Menarche age | | | | | | <13 | 9 | 13 | | Menarche: 0.741ǂ | 0.0017 | ≥13 | 27 | 23 | | BC: <0.0001ǂ | <0.001 |
| Abortion | | | | | | Yes | 17 | 15 | | Abortion: 0.045ǂ | 0.001 | No | 19 | 21 | | BC: <0.0001ǂ | <0.001 |
| Contraceptive drugs | | | | | | Yes | 14 | 16 | | Contraceptive drugs: 0.557ǂ | 0.004 | No | 22 | 20 | | BC: <0.0001ǂ | <0.001 |
| Number of pregnancies | | | | | | ≤4 | 20 | 22 | | Pregnancy number: 0.266ǂ | <0.001 | >5 | 16 | 14 | | BC: <0.0001ǂ | <0.001 |
| BMI | | | | | | | 14 | 9 | | BMI: 0.437ǂ | 0.002 | | 16 | 16 | | BC: <0.0001ǂ | 0.0025 | | 6 | 11 | | | 0.0034 |
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ǂThe two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used for the comparison. ¥Tukey multiple comparison.
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