Evaluation of long noncoding RNA MALAT1 as a candidate blood-based biomarker for the diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer

Table 6 Analysis of potential factors influencing MALAT1 levels in human blood

		β	95% CI	p value
Intercept		-4.64	-8.93; -0.35
Group (Reference: controls)	NSCLC	1.63	0.75; 2.51	0.0004
Gender (Reference: male)	Female	0.22	-0.66; 1.10	0.6210
Age	[10 years]	0.45	-0.10; 1.00	0.1058
Smoking status (Reference: never)	Ever	-0.42	-1.94; 1.10	0.5848

Statistically significant changes are marked in bold.
Values of β > 0 indicate a negative association between analyzed factor and MALAT1, values < 0 a positive association.

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