Table 2.
Cox regression analyses of health related quality of life and survival after adjusting for demographic, disease-, and treatment -related predictors
| B | p-value | Hazard Ratio |
95% Confidence Interval | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | ||||
| AGE | |||||
| Ref: <50 years | .055 | .892 | 1.056 | .480 | 2.325 |
| GENDER | |||||
| Ref: male | .451 | .164 | 1.570 | .832 | 2.962 |
| MELD | .020 | .504 | 1.020 | .963 | 1.080 |
| TUMOR SIZE | |||||
| Ref: <5cm | .507 | .035 | 1.660 | 1.036 | 2.660 |
| LESION NUMBER | |||||
| Ref: <2 | -1.010 | .000 | .364 | .225 | .590 |
| VASCULARITY | |||||
| Ref: hyper | .214 | ||||
| Mixed | −.963 | .080 | .382 | .130 | 1.122 |
| Hypo | −.935 | .121 | .393 | .120 | 1.281 |
| VASCULAR INVASION | .817 | .001 | 2.264 | 1.380 | 3.713 |
| TREATMENT | |||||
| Ref: TACE | .626 | ||||
| 90 Yttrium | .071 | .897 | 1.074 | .365 | 3.157 |
| No treatment | −.242 | .671 | .785 | .257 | 2.397 |
| RFA | 1.145 | .329 | 3.143 | .315 | 31.371 |
| Resection | −.098 | .904 | .906 | .184 | 4.457 |
| HRQL | |||||
| Ref: Lowest tertile | .009 | ||||
| Middle tertile | .904 | .003 | 2.469 | 1.351 | 4.514 |
| Highest tertile | .734 | .018 | 2.084 | 1.135 | 3.824 |