Table 1 Patients characteristics (diabetic vs nondiabetic)
From: The effect of metformin use on hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma in diabetes mellitus patients
All (n = 141) | Nondiabetes mellitus (n = 49) | Diabetes mellitus (n = 92) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of patients | (%) | No. of patients | (%) | No. of patients | (%) | p value | |
Age | 63.64 y | 63.28 y | 65.96 y | ||||
Alcohol | 81 | 57.45 | 26 | 53.06 | 55 | 59.78 | 0.42 |
Betel nut | 79 | 56.03 | 25 | 51.02 | 51 | 55.43 | 0.17 |
Cigarette | 92 | 65.25 | 28 | 57.14 | 64 | 69.57 | 0.21 |
T1 | 15 | 10.64 | 7 | 14.29 | 8 | 8.70 | 0.11 |
T2 | 41 | 29.08 | 13 | 26.53 | 28 | 30.43 | 0.43 |
T3 | 35 | 24.82 | 11 | 22.45 | 24 | 26.09 | 0.14 |
T4 | 49 | 34.75 | 18 | 36.73 | 31 | 33.70 | 0.26 |
N0 | 30 | 21.28 | 8 | 16.33 | 22 | 23.91 | 0.23 |
N1 | 20 | 14.18 | 9 | 18.37 | 11 | 11.96 | 0.11 |
N2 | 87 | 61.70 | 30 | 61.22 | 57 | 61.96 | 0.13 |
N3 | 4 | 2.84 | 2 | 4.08 | 2 | 2.17 | 0.16 |
M0 | 131 | 92.91 | 47 | 95.92 | 84 | 91.30 | 0.11 |
M1 | 10 | 7.09 | 2 | 4.08 | 8 | 8.70 | 0.17 |
Early stage | 40 | 28.37 | 13 | 26.53 | 27 | 29.35 | 0.39 |
Late stage | 88 | 62.41 | 36 | 73.47 | 52 | 56.52 | 0.42 |