Table III.

Univariate and multivariate analyses of the factors correlated with overall survival of lung adenocarcinoma patients.

	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
Variables	HR	95% CI	P-value	HR	95% CI	P-value
Livin expression	0.466	0.281–0.773	0.003a	0.568	0.339–0.950	0.031a
Sex	1.393	0.866–2.243	0.172
Age	1.107	0.690–1.776	0.674
T stage	1.541	1.135–2.092	0.006a	1.170	0.799–1.715	0.419
N stage	1.788	1.404–2.276	<0.001a	1.565	1.107–2.211	0.011a
M stage	0.700	0.171–2.863	0.620
TNM stage	1.562	1.223–1.995	<0.001a	1.031	0.679–1.564	0.886
Grade	1.969	1.218–3.182	0.006a	1.697	0.953–3.022	0.072

^aStatistically significant (p<0.05). HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.