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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Surg Res. 2013 Jul 11;185(2):697–703. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2013.06.048

Table 3.

Uni- and multi-covariate logistic regression models for lymph node positive breast cancer

Covariate Uni-covariate Multi-covariate
Odds Ratio (95% CI) p-value Odds Ratio (95% CI) p-value
Age (≥50 vs. <50) 0.467 (0.300-0.728) 0.001 0.562 (0.337-0.935) 0.0265
Financial Class (Uninsured vs. insured) 1.178 (0.384-3.614) 0.775
Financial Class (Medicare vs. insured) 0.511 (0.303-0.863) 0.012
Financial Class (Medicaid vs. insured) 1.565 (0.898-2.726) 0.114
Ethnicity (African-American vs. White) 1.961 (1.180-3.258) 0.009
Ethnicity (Hispanic vs. White) 3.289 (1.710-6.326) <0.001 3.229 (1.533-6.803) 0.002
Ethnicity (Other vs. White) 0.444 (0.088-2.549) 0.327
Histology(Lobular vs. Ductal) 0.682 (0.295-1.577) 0.371
Histology (Other vs. Ductal) 0.239 (0.026-2.157) 0.202
Grade (moderate vs. well-differentiated) 2.987 (1.609-5.545) 0.001 2.692 (1.287-5.630) 0.0085
Grade (poor vs. well-differentiated) 2.503 (1.351-4.636) 0.004 1.879 (0.822-4.297) 0.135
ER Status(negative vs. positive) 0.839 (0.527-1.336) 0.460
PR Status (negative vs. positive ) 0.945 (0.613-1.456) 0.798
Ki-67 (≥14% vs. <14%) 1.431 (0.917-2.233) 0.115
HER-2 Status (negative vs. positive) 0.509 (0.316-0.818) 0.005 NA
Subtype (HER-2 -Enriched vs. Luminal A) 2.138 (0.886-5.156) 0.091
Subtype (Luminal-HER-2 vs. Luminal A) 2.939 (1.543-5.599) 0.001
Subtype (Luminal B vs. Luminal A) 1.733 (1.003-2.992) 0.049
Subtype (Triple Negative vs. Luminal A) 1.186 (0.625-2.254) 0.602
Tumor Size (T2 vs. T1) 2.197 (1.359-3.553) 0.001 2188 (1.291-3.710) 0.0036
Tumor Size (T3 vs. T1) 10.301 (4.434-23.931) <0.001 9.669 (3.940-23.730) <0.0001
Tumor Size (T4 vs. T1) 15.145 (5.550-41.330) <0.001 12.522 (4.402-35.620) <0.0001

CI: confidence interval.

NA: not applicable, HER-2 not included in the model