Table II.

Multivariate Cox regression analysis for miR-518b in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

	Cox regression analysis
Characteristic	HR	95% CI	P-value
miR-518b	2.270	1.197–4.305	0.012
Age	1.064	0.601–1.884	0.832
Sex	1.060	0.583–1.927	0.850
Smoking status	1.425	0.802–2.531	0.227
Histological type	2.408	0.562–10.326	0.495
Tumor size	1.123	0.610–2.068	0.710
Differentiation	1.198	0.652–2.198	0.560
TNM	5.359	1.177–24.389	0.030
Lymph node metastasis	5.957	1.374–25.829	0.017

miR, microRNA; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis; HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval.