Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the patients with gastric cancer and control group.

	Control (n = 180)	GC (n = 220)	P
Gender (M/F)	94/86	134/86	0.081^{^b}
Age (years)	54.7 ± 14.0^{^a}	57.3 ± 13.3^{^a}	0.063^{^c}
H. pylori infection positive (%)	116 (64.4)	147 (66.8)	0.619^{^b}

↵a Mean ± SD (all such values);
↵b Pearson chi-square test;
↵c 2-sample t-test.