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Table 3. Multivariate Cox regression analysis on 3-year disease-free survival of 218 patients with breast cancer (including intensity and proportion of GILT expression).

Variable	HR	95%CI		?²	P
		Lower	Upper
Intensity of GILT	3.372	1.212	9.384	5.421	0.020
Proportion of GILT	1.804	0.539	6.043	0.916	0.339
TIL score	2.474	0.938	6.524	3.353	0.067
Disease side	0.841	0.321	2.205	0.124	0.725
Age	1.089	0.423	2.803	0.032	0.859
BMI ^a	2.569	1.370	4.816	8.656	0.003
Menarche	3.389	0.660	17.400	2.139	0.144
Menopause	1.088	0.308	3.838	0.017	0.896
Hypertension	0.300	0.034	2.645	1.175	0.278
Diabetes mellitus	0.687	0.076	6.246	0.111	0.739
Peripheral blood neutrophils	2.187	0.571	8.383	1.303	0.254
Peripheral blood lymphocytes	1.356	0.451	4.079	0.294	0.588
Peripheral blood hemoglobin	1.423	0.454	4.467	0.366	0.545
Histological type	1.269	0.264	6.113	0.088	0.766
pTNM stage	4.343	1.913	9.860	12.319	<0.001
Molecular classification	1.372	0.971	1.939	3.208	0.073

Abbreviations: HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; TIL, tumor infiltrating lymphocyte; BMI, body mass index; pTNM stage, pathological TNM stage.

the international BMI classification.