Skip to main content

Table 1 Characteristics of participants

From: Evaluation of serum MUC5AC in combination with CA19-9 for the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer

 

Healthy controls

Benign controls

Choledocholithiasis

Chronic pancreatitis

Pancreatic cancer (n = 61)

Early pancreatic cancer

Late pancreatic cancer

Number

34

29

35

25

30

31

Sex

 Male

23

18

19

21

16

17

 Female

11

11

16

4

14

14

Age (years)

52.3 ± 11.3

55.1 ± 10.2

51.0 ± 10.2

52.1 ± 13.8

50.3 ± 10.4

52.0 ± 11.2

BMI (kg/m2)

24.0 ± 3.2

25.5 ± 4.2

24.8 ± 2.8

22.2 ± 4.0

22.7 ± 3.2

22.1 ± 3.4

ALT (U/L)

21 (14–27)

18 (13–28)

42 (28–57)

32 (20–76)

73 (50–102)

65 (42–131)

AST (U/L)

20 (18–22)

18 (15–26)

35 (27–52)

34 (26–53)

89 (67–106)

87 (70–100)

GGT (U/L)

23 (16–41)

34 (18–54)

60 (37–126)

45 (28–84)

134 (89–188)

145 (91–182)

TBIL (μmol/L)

14.4 (10.8–20.8)

16.0 (12.8–21.8)

32.0 (28.8–41.6)

16.0 (13.6–21.6)

58.8 (55.6–66.8)

62.0 (58.8–160.4)

DBIL (μmol/L)

6.4 (4.8–8.0)

6.4 (5.6–8.8)

18.4 (16.8–21.6)

6.4 (4.8–8.0)

46.8 (38.7–59.0)

48.4 (46.8–146.8)

Albumin (g/L)

44.2 ± 4.3

41.7 ± 4.0

43.1 ± 5.1

32.7 ± 4.5

32.2 ± 4.3

31.1 ± 3.6

CA19-9 (U/mL)

15.1 (8.4–25.2)

11.6 (8.8–34.6)

48.5 (27.6–61.4)

35.6 (27.4–44.7)

376.1 (83.1–552.7)

399.9 (48.5–687.3)

MUC5AC (ng/mL)

60.8 (37.8–81.3)

86.4 (48.4–108.2)

91.8 (68.0–127.4)

95.1 (59.7–160.3)

174.6 (87.3–377.0)

228.7 (105.5–596.3)

  1. Data are mean ± standard deviation or median (interquartile range) for continuous variables
  2. ALT alanine transaminase, AST aspartate aminotransferase, BMI body mass index, DBIL direct bilirubin, GGT γ-glutamyltransferase, TBIL total bilirubin