Table 3 Associations between patient and tumour characteristics and overall bacterial profiles of preoperative rectal and intraoperative luminal gut microbiota
From: Changes in the gut bacterial communities in colon cancer surgery patients: an observational study
Characteristic | P value* | |
|---|---|---|
Preoperative rectal | Intraoperative luminal | |
Age | 0.1571 | 0.1869 |
Female gender | 0.9038 | 0.3199 |
Body mass index | 0.0798 | 0.1681 |
Prealbumin | 0.4161 | 0.5159 |
Glucose | 0.6901 | 0.3293 |
Preoperative haemoglobin | 0.2852 | 0.1709 |
Postoperative haemoglobin | 0.5422 | 0.2148 |
E-ESBL carriage | 0.6326 | 0.7367 |
Tumour characteristics | ||
Tumour location (ascending/transverse vs descending/sigmoid) | 0.2698 | 0.0109 (R2 = 0.03425 F = 1.7623) |
Tumour stage (T1/T2 vs T3/T4) | 0.9298 | 0.9778 |
Tumour budding (BD1 vs BD2/BD3) | 0.1342 | 0.2722 |