Table 2.

Multivariate Cox regression analysis for miR-19b in breast cancer patients

Variables	Multivariate analysis
	HR	95% CI	P-value
miR-19b	2.560	1.130–5.796	0.024*
Age (years)	1.129	0.581–2.193	0.721
Tumor size	1.061	0.535–2.104	0.866
ER expression	1.084	0.524–2.245	0.828
PR expression	1.004	0.516–1.954	0.991
HER-2 expression	1.015	0.510–2.020	0.967
Distant metastasis	1.351	0.629–2.902	0.441
TNM stage	2.079	1.033–4.186	0.040*

Note:

^*P<0.05.

Abbreviations: miR-19b, microRNA-19b; ER, estrogen receptor; PR, progesterone receptor.