Table 4. Cox proportional hazard regression model analysis of gastric cancer patients with stage I and II.

Variables	Univariate analysis				Multivariate analysis
	Relative risk	95% CI	P				Relative risk	95% CI	P
Gender
Male vs. female	0.663	0.144-3.047	0.597
Age, years
≤60 vs. >60	1.509	0.454-5.021	0.502
Site
Non-cardiac cancer vs. cardiac cancer	2.718	0.862-8.576	0.088
Lauren type
Intestinal vs. other types	0.421	0.092-1.931	0.266
Differentiation
Well-Moderatevs. poor	1.449	0.466-4.502	0.522
Lymphovascular invasion
Absent vs. present	0.770	0.168-3.525	0.736
Depth of invasion
T1+T2 vs. T3+T4	1.344	0.402-4.489	0.631
Lymph node metastasis
Absent vs. present	0.327	0.088-1.212	0.094				0.274	0.073-1.028	0.038
TNM stage
I vs. II	1.758	0.385-8.039	0.467
LGR5 expression
Low expression vs. high expression	3.346	1.062-10.544	0.039				3.971	1.242-12.699	0.020