Clinicopathological features and expression of regulatory mechanism of the Wnt signaling pathway in colorectal sessile serrated adenomas/polyps with different syndrome types

Table 1 Comparison of the general data of sessile serrated adenoma/polyp patients with large intestine damp-heat (Da-Chang-Shi-Re) syndrome and spleen-stomach weakness (Pi-Wei-Xu-Ruo) syndrome

	DCSR syndrome, n = 30		PWXR syndrome, n = 30	P value
Sex				0.791
Male	19		18
Female	11		12
Age in yr	58.800 ± 9.290		58.900 ± 7.097	0.578
Size in cm	0.800 ± 0.435		0.520 ± 0.219	0.001
Location				0.158
Right half of the colon	9		4
Left half of the colon	13		20
Rectum	8		6
Clinical symptoms				0.435
Constipation	4		6
Diarrhea	2		6
Abdominal pain	2		4
Abdominal distension	4		5
Mild symptoms or asymptomatic	18	11

DCSR: Large intestine damp-heat (Da-Chang-Shi-Re); PWXR: Spleen-stomach weakness (Pi-Wei-Xu-Ruo).