Mucins in neoplastic spectrum of colorectal polyps: can they provide predictions?

BMC Cancer

Table 4 Regression analysis determining the risk of invasion¹ in colorectal polyps

	P value	Odds Ratio	95% confidence interval
			Lower bound	Upper bound
MUC1, negative vs. positive	0.069	0.407	0.155	1.071
MUC2, negative vs. positive	0.002	29.729	3.424	258.140
MUC5AC, negative vs. positive	0.132	2.142	0.794	5.776
MUC6, negative vs. positive	0.001	0.203	0.081	0.506
Gender, female vs. male	0.053	2.503	0.988	6.337
Polyp site, left colon and rectum vs. right colon	0.049	3.834	1.005	1.005
Age²,	0.335	0.985	0.956	1.015

¹ Invasion to mucosa or muscularis mucosae and not beyond; ²age was entered as continuous variable

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