29 September 2020: Clinical Research
HMGA1 Promotes Hepatic Metastasis of Colorectal Cancer by Inducing Expression of Glucose Transporter 3 (GLUT3)
Meijing Yang 1ABC* , Yang Guo 1DE* , Xiaoyun Liu 2E , Naiqing Liu 3ABCDEF*DOI: 10.12659/MSM.924975
Med Sci Monit 2020; 26:e924975
Table 2 Correlations between HMGA1 and CRCLM characteristics.
| Factors | HMGA1 | P* | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low | High | ||
| Sex | |||
| Male | 13 | 16 | 0.236 |
| Female | 26 | 18 | |
| Age | |||
| 8 | 7 | 0.994 | |
| ≥60 | 31 | 27 | |
| Differentiation | |||
| Good | 25 | 19 | 0.632 |
| Moderate+poor | 14 | 15 | |
| Lymph node invasion | |||
| No (N0) | 23 | 23 | 0.444 |
| Yes (N1/2) | 16 | 11 | |
| Number of CRCLM | |||
| 22 | 16 | 0.425 | |
| ≥3 | 17 | 18 | |
| CRCLM distribution | |||
| Unilobar | 26 | 20 | 0.489 |
| Bilobar | 13 | 14 | |
| GLUT3 | |||
| Low | 24 | 13 | 0.047 |
| High | 15 | 21 | |
| * Chi-square test. | |||