Table 3.

Cox Univariate and Multivariate Analyses of Disease-Free Survival

Characteristics	Univariate			Multivariate
	HR	p value	95% CI	HR	p value	95% CI
Sex (female vs male)	1.264	0.597	0.529–3.019
Age (<60 vs ≥60)	1.705	0.214	0.735–3.953
Differentiation (well+moderate vs poor)	1.651	0.242	0.713–3.827
Tumor Size (<5 vs ≥5)	2.284	0.056	0.980–5.326
TNM stage (I, II vs III, IV)	5.322	0.003	1.780–15.913	4.480	0.008	1.473–13.625
Nerves (negative vs positive)	2.291	0.137	0.768–6.829
Vessels (negative vs positive)	1.067	0.888	0.433–2.628
Lymph node (N0-1 vs N2-3)	1.562	0.333	0.633–3.853
Tumor site (Antrum vs Cardia)	1.079	0.874	0.420–2.773
miR-140-3p level (high vs low)	2.700	0.041	1.043–6.990	1.294	0.636	0.446–3.755
BCL2 level (low vs high)	2.836	0.019	1.183–6.799	2.112	0.098	0.870–5.126

Note: p<0.05 is indicated present in bold.

Abbreviations: TNM, tumor-node-metastasis; HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; high, high expression; low, low expression.