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. 2014 Dec 4;112(1):61–68. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2014.573

Table 2. Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazards analyses for disease-specific survival in association with miR34a expression for all three cohorts.

  Cohort 1 (n=394; 189)a
Cohort 2 (n=182; 22)a
Cohort 3 (n=621; 53)a
Variable HR (95% CI) P-value HR (95% CI) P-value HR (95% CI) P-value
Age
Univariate            
 <50 0.834 (0.62–1.12) 0.2335 1.451 (0.82–2.58) 0.2059 0.817 (0.49–1.35) 0.435
Multivariate            
 <50 0.807 (0.57–1.14) 0.2268 1.402 (0.51–3.86) 0.5131 0.900 (0.49–1.63) 0.7261
 >50 1.00   1.00   1.00  
Tumour size
Univariate            
 2–5 cm 1.756 (1.29–2.40) 0.0014 3.781 (2.04–7.00) <0.0001 2.2026 (1.22–3.38) 0.0068
 >5 cm 3.191 (2.16–4.71) <0.0001     8.402 (3.9–18.09) <0.0001
Multivariate            
 <2 cm 1 <0.0001 1 0.0022 1 0.0006
 >2–5 cm 1.772 (1.28–2.47)   4.709 (1.74–12.73)   1.517 (0.81–2.86)  
 >5 cm 2.959 (1.97–4.44)       5.608 (2.31–13.62)  
Nodal status
Univariate            
 Negative 0.438 (0.33–0.58) <0.0001 0.352 (0.18–0.70) 0.0031 0.350 (0.22–0.57) <0.0001
Multivariate            
 Positive 1.00   1.00   1.00  
 Negative 0.549 (0.40–0.75) 0.0002 0.640 (0.25–1.66) 0.3597 0.295 (0.16–0.54) <0.0001
ERα
Univariate            
 Negative 1.512 (1.16–1.97) 0.0024 1.391 (0.70–2.76) 0.345 1.895 (1.17–3.06) 0.009
Multivariate            
 Positive 1.00   1.00   1.00  
 Negative 1.396 (1.00–1.93) 0.0439 1.247 (0.38–4.05) 0.7139 1.259 (0.66–2.42) 0.4889
PR
Univariate            
 Negative 1.409 (1.07–1.85) 0.0133 1.610 (0.81–3.19) 0.1736 2.666 (1.59–4.47) 0.0002
Multivariate            
 Positive 1.00   1.00   1.00  
 Negative 1.140 (0.84–1.54) 0.3935 1.798 (0.55–5.84) 0.3286 1.724 (0.89–3.36) 0.1096
HER2
Univariate            
 Negative 0.863 (0.56–1.34) 0.5144 0.511 (0.18–1.45) 0.2060 0.601 (0.29–1.23) 0.1627
Multivariate            
 Positive 1.00   1.00   1.00  
 Negative 0.685 (0.41–1.13) 0.141 0.369 (0.11–1.19) 0.0952 1.003 (0.47–2.16) 0.9929
miR34a
Univariate            
 High 0.632 (0.43–0.93) 0.0199 0.393 (0.21–0.74) 0.0034 0.545 (0.30–0.99) 0.0479
Multivariate            
 Low 1.00   1.00   1.00  
 High 0.647 (0.43–0.98) 0.0381 0.343 (0.12–0.99) 0.0468 0.727 (0.35–1.5) 0.4014

Abbreviations: CI=confidence interval; HR=hazards ratio.

The P-values are shown for a 20-year follow-up for Cohorts 1 and 2 and 148 months for Cohort 3. Bold entities indicate statistically significant P-values.

a

The number of patients in each cohort followed by number of patient deaths due to the disease.