Table 2.

Hazard ratios for the association between RBG (≥120 vs. <120) and breast cancer outcomes

Overall survival	HR (95 % CI)	P value
Crude	3.01 (1.70–5.33)	<0.001
Adjusted for age	2.99 (1.68–5.33)	<0.001
Adjusted for age group (≥50 vs. <50)	3.07 (1.72–5.48)	<0.001
Adjusted for grade	3.08 (1.71–5.57)	<0.001
Adjusted for stage	3.09 (1.73–5.53)	<0.001
Adjusted for age, tumor grade and tumor stage	3.19 (1.74–5.86)	<0.001
Adjusted for age, tumor grade, tumor stage, and race	3.24 (1.75–5.99)	<0.001
Adjusted for age group (≥50 vs. <50), tumor grade, tumor stage, and race	3.40 (1.83–6.33)	<0.001
Adjusted for BMI	3.24 (1.78–5.89)	<0.001
Adjusted for tumor grade, tumor stage, race, and BMI	3.50 (1.87–6.54)	<0.001
Time to tumor recurrencea
Crude	2.08 (1.04–4.16)	0.039
Adjusted for age	2.59 (1.27–5.26)	0.009
Adjusted for age group (≥50 vs. <50)	2.65 (1.29–5.44)	0.008
Adjusted for grade	2.06 (1.01–4.18)	0.046
Adjusted for stage	2.01 (1.00–4.04)	0.051
Adjusted for grade and stage	2.00 (0.97–4.09)	0.059
Adjusted for race	2.17 (1.08–4.38)	0.030
Adjusted for BMI	2.37 (1.16–4.83)	0.017
Adjusted for BMI and grade	2.32 (1.13–4.73)	0.021
Adjusted for BMI and stage	2.32 (1.13–4.76)	0.022

^aFive out of 148 (3.4 %) subjects who never became disease free were removed from TTR analyses