Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of urinary bladder cancer and chronic urinary tract infection patients and control

From: Serum level and single-nucleotide polymorphisms of toll-like receptor-7 among urinary bladder cancer Iraqi patients

Characteristic	UBC (N = 66)		UTI (N = 40)		Control (N = 48)		p
Characteristic	N	%	N	%	N	%	p
Gender							< 0.001
Male	59	89.4	8	20.0	24	50.0
Female	7	10.6	32	80.0	24	50.0
Age group							< 0.001
< 48 years	18	27.3	28	70.0	40	83.3
≥ 48 year	48	72.7	12	30.0	8	16.7
Cigarette-smoking							< 0.001
Yes	51	77.3	6	15.0	20	41.7
No	15	22.7	34	85.0	28	58.3
Alcohol-consuming							< 0.010
Yes	20	30.3	2	5.0	4	8.3
No	46	69.7	38	95.0	44	91.7
Family history
Yes	13	19.7
No	53	80.3
Clinical stage
I–II	41	62.1
III–IV	25	37.9
Tumor invasiveness
Superficial	29	43.9
Invasive	37	56.1
Type of therapy
Untreated	19	28.8
Methotrexate	33	50.0
BCG	14	21.2

BCG Bacillus Calmette–Guérin, N absolute number, p Pearson’s chi-square test probability, UBC urinary bladder cancer, UTI urinary tract infection

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