Table 1. Univar iate and multivariate Cox model for the effect MetS and its components on survival in colorectal cancer .

Characteristics		Hazard Ratio		P value		95% CI
		Crude	Adjusted	Univariate	Multivariate	Univariate	Multivariate
MetS	Yes	0.81	0.95	0.05	0.6	0.06-3.78	0.52-1.22
	No	1	1
SEX	Male	0.86	1.09	0.3	0.7	0.66-1.4	0.67-1.77
	Female	1	1
Marital status	Married	1	1	-	-	-	0.88-3.49
	Single	1.92	1.75	0.004	0.1	1.23-3.0
Education	Illiterate	1	1	1
	Primary school	0.68	0.5	0.05	0.03	0.465-1.0	0.26-.94
	High school	0.68	0.4	0.07	0.02	0.45-1.05	0.20-0.89
	university	0.67	0.6	0.08	0.12	0.43-1.04	0.36-1.2
Tumor grade	grade II	1.46	1.2	0.03	0.4	1.03-2.08	0.73-1.9
	III to IV	1.89	2.2	0.01	0.01	1.14-3.33	1.9-4.4
Age at diagnosis		1.03	1.00	0.3	0.9	0.9-1.03	0.98-1.01
Hypertension		0.82	0.83	0.4	0.6	0.5-1.64	0.42-1.64
Diabetes		0.9	1.45	0.7	0.3	0.5-1.64	0.71-2.95
High body mass index		0.71	0.62	0.001	0.006	0.35-6.8	0.44-8.7