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. 2021 Oct 20;11:756326. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.756326

Table 2.

All 18 variables included in the backwards feature selection analysis.

Variable Univariable Multivariable
OR (95% CI) p-value OR (95% CI) p-value
Age (years), ≥43 vs. <43 5.07 (3.07–8.56) 1.75e–07*** 5.23 (3.24–8.63) 2.56e-08***
Sex (Female vs. Male) 0.32 (0.17–0.56) 0.0011** 0.32 (0.19–0.53) 0.000248***
Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) (ng/ml), log10 a 1.50 (1.35–1.69) 1.85e–09*** 1.48 (1.34–1.64) 3.05e-10***
Six-CpG-Scorer 2.37(1.83 –3.12) 1.10e–07*** 2.58 (2.01–3.36) 1.08e-09***
Total protein(g/L), ≥65 vs. <65 0.38 (0.19–0.71) 0.01209* 0.32 (0.20–0.51) 0.56
Total bilirubin(μmol/L), ≥21 vs. <21 0.32 (0.14–0.69) 0.01588* 0.45 (0.32–0.64) 0.78
AST (U/L), log10 0.77 (0.45–1.28) 0.40551
ALT (U/L), log10 0.51(0.43–1.06) 0.15320
Direct bilirubin (μmol/L), ≥7 vs. <7 0.55 (0.77–2.35) 0.38832
γ-GT (U/L), ≥45 vs. <45 1.15 (0.83–1.61) 0.47649
Albumin (g/L), ≥40 vs. <40 0.74 (0.41–1.36) 0.42147
Alkaline phosphatase (U/L), log10 0.77 (0.44–1.35) 0.44623
Hemoglobin (g/L), ≥115 vs. <115 1.68 (0.91–3.14) 0.16827
White blood cell count × 109/L, log10 0.84 (0.17–4.24) 0.85430
Monocyte count × 109/L, truncate_99 + log10 b 2.29 (1.14–4.67) 0.05410.
Platelet count × 109/L, ≥125 vs. <125 0.84(0.50–1.42) 0.58796
Lymphocyte count × 109/L, ≥1.1 vs. <1.1 0.82 (0.46–1.49) 0.58026
Neutrophil count× 109/L, log10 1.08 (0.37–2.86) 0.89871

aNonlinear transformation.

bMonocyte count variable was truncated with 1st and 99th percentiles and then performed with nonlinear transformation.

OR, odds ratio; γ-GT, γ-glutamyltranspeptidase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase. Signif. codes: “***” 0.001, “**” 0.01, “*” 0.05.