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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2015 Jan 20;53:256–267. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.01.010

Table 4.

Parameters for Cox proportional-hazard regression models for overall survival in patients with ovarian cancer, (regression coefficients, standard errors, p values, Hazard Ratios, and 95% confidence intervals for Hazard Ratios).

B S.E. P-
Value
Hazard
Ratio
95% CI
Stage (early vs advanced) −0.338 0.241 0.161 0.713 0.445–1.143
Grade (low vs high) −0.192 0.378 0.612 0.825 0.393–1.732
Cytoreduction , (optimal vs suboptimal) 0.105 0.157 0.506 1.110 0.816–1.512
Age 0.026 0.014 0.055 1.027 0.999–1.055
Nocturnal Cortisola 0.375 0.162 0.021 1.455 1.059–1.998
B S.E. P-
Value
Hazard
Ratio
95% CI
Stage (early vs advanced −0.341 0.241 0.158 0.711 0.443–1.141
Grade (low vs high) −0.241 0.381 0.527 0.786 0.373–1.657
Cytoreduction , (optimal vs suboptimal) 0.119 0.157 0.451 1.126 0.827–1.533
Age 0.030 0.013 0.022 1.031 1.004–1.058
Cortisol Slopeb 0.325 0.158 0.040 1.384 1.015–1.886
B S.E. P-
Value
Hazard
Ratio
95% CI
Stage (early vs advanced) −0.350 0.238 0.140 0.704 0.442–1.122
Grade (low vs high) −0.260 0.377 0.491 0.771 0.368–1.615
Cytoreduction, (optimal vs suboptimal) 0.110 0.158 0.485 1.116 0.820–1.520
Age 0.030 0.014 0.025 1.031 1.004–1.059
Cortisol Variabilityc −0.314 0.127 0.013 0.731 0.570–0.937
a

Greater hazard reflects 1 SD increase night cortisol (.787 nmol/L, (ln))

b

Greater hazard reflects 1 SD smaller hourly decline in salivary cortisol (.049 nmol/L, (ln)).

c

Smaller hazard reflects 1 SD greater decline in salivary cortisol over course of the day (21.4%)