Table 2.

Prognostic factors of NPC patients in Hospital USM using simple Cox regression based on socio-demographic (n = 134)

Socio-demographics	b (SE)	Crude HR (95% CI)	Wald statistic	p value
Age (year)	0.02 (0.01)	1.02 (1.01, 1.03)	8.01	0.005
Gender
Female	0.00	1.00	–	–
Male	0.24 (0.27)	1.28 (0.75, 2.16)	0.81	0.368
Ethnicity
Malay	0.00	1.00	–	–
Chinese	− 0.23 (0.30)	0.80 (0.44, 1.45)	0.55	0.457
Other	− 0.09 (1.01)	0.92 (0.13, 6.63)	0.01	0.930
Co-morbidities
No	0.00	1.00	–	–
Yes	− 0.23 (0.27)	0.78 (0.46, 1.35)	0.73	0.393