Soluble cytotoxic T-lymphocyte–associated antigen 4 (sCTLA-4) as a potential biomarker for diagnosis and evaluation of the prognosis in Glioma

Table 2 Correlation Between Serum sCTLA-4 and clinicopathological parameters

clinicopathological parameters	Correlation coefficient	P-value
Age	0.130	0.367
Gender	0.185	0.223
Smoking history	0.260	0.085
Drinking history	− 0.014	0.926
Tumor Grade	0.444	< 0.05
Tumor site	−0.150	0.298
Ki-67 labeling index	0.657	< 0.05
WBC Counts	0.361	< 0.05
RBC Counts	0.265	0.079
PLT Counts	0.088	0.565

Notes: Of all the parameters evaluated in this research, tumor grade, Ki-67 labeling index and WBC were correlated with sCTLA-4 level in patient group. *p < 0.05. sCTLA-4 Soluble cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4, WBC White blood cell, RBC Red blood cell, PLT Platelet

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