Low EBI3 Expression Promotes the Malignant Degree of Gastric Cancer

Table 2

Univariate analysis of the overall survival rate of GC patients.

Variables	Univariate
	HR		95% CI
Gender
Male vs. female	0.888	0.452	0.651-1.210
Age (years)
≤60 vs. >60	1.184	0.248	0.889-1.576
Histological type
Tubular vs. mixed (tubular and mucious) and mucinous vs. signet cell carcinoma	0.950	0.402	0.842-1.071
Differentiation
Well vs. middle vs. poor	1.497	<0.001	1.201-1.867
TNM stage
0 vs. vs. vs. vs.	2.271	<0.001	1.914-2.695
T
Tis vs. T1 vs. T2 vs. T3 vs. T4	1.818	<0.001	1.486-2.224
N
N0 vs. N1 vs. N2 vs. N3	1.635	<0.001	1.451-1.843
M
M0 vs. M1	4.230	<0.001	2.647-6.762
Preoperative CEA, ng/ml
≤5 vs. >5	1.034	0.499	0.938-1.139
Preoperative CA199, U/ml
≤37 vs. >37	1.007	0.891	0.916-1.107
EBi3 expression
High vs. low	0.402	<0.001	0.315-0.561

The univariate analysis was performed by Kaplan-Meier method with log-rank test. is considered significant.