Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer outperforms Hong Kong Liver Cancer staging of hepatocellular carcinoma in multiethnic Asians: Real-world perspective

Table 1 Baseline characteristics n (%)

Variable	All Patients (n = 1270)
Age, yr, median (range)	63 (13-94)
Male	1046 (82.4)
Ethnicity
Chinese	1135 (89.4)
Malay	90 (7.1)
Indian	36 (2.8)
Others	9 (0.7)
Aetiology
Hepatitis B	953 (75.0)
Hepatitis C	91 (7.2)
Hepatitis B and C co-infection	48 (3.8)
Others	178 (14.0)
Child-Pugh class
A:B:C	641 (50.5): 452 (35.6): 177 (13.9)