Research Article

The Prognostic Role of SIRT1-Autophagy Axis in Gastric Cancer

Table 3

Univariate Cox proportional hazards regression analysis of GC patients’ clinicopathological characteristics and OS and RFS.

CharacteristicsN OS RFS
HR (95% CI)pHR (95% CI)p

BMI (24 versus <24)21 versus 750.543 (0.274–1.072)0.0790.553 (0.280–1.094)0.089
Tumor size (5 versus ≤5cm)30 versus 661.745 (1.025–2.969)1.710 (1.005–2.911)
Lauren classification (Diffuse versus Intestinal)36 versus 601.373 (0.817–2.307)0.2311.360 (0.809–2.286)0.245
Histologic grade (PD versus WD and MD)69 versus 272.673 (1.383–5.167)2.663 (1.377–5.150)
LN metastasis (Positive versus Negative)72 versus 2449.924 (6.792–366.946)<46.792 (6.380–343.202)<
Tumor invasion (AGC versus EGC)87 versus 927.242 (1.198–619.630)26.825 (1.152–624.503)
TNM stage (III and IV versus I and II)72 versus 2437.857 (5.199–275.640)<36.784 (5.056–267.642)<
VCE (Positive versus Negative)39 versus 571.551 (0.927–2.596)0.0951.540 (0.920–2.577)0.100
SIRT1 expression (High versus Low)53 versus 435.163 (2.820–9.452)<4.949 (2.706–9.052)<
Beclin1 expression (High versus Low)57 versus 395.994 (3.055–11.763)<6.019 (3.069–11.804)<
Beclin-1/SIRT1 expression (Low/High versus Low/Low)9 versus 302.926 (0.846–10.117)0.0902.911 (0.841–10.081)0.092
Beclin-1/SIRT1 expression (High/Low versus Low/Low)13 versus 301.980 (1.183–3.314)2.006 (1.198–3.358)
Beclin-1/SIRT1 expression (High/High versus Low/Low)44 versus 302.297 (1.718–3.071)<2.266 (1.697–3.025)<
Beclin-1/SIRT1 expression (High/Low versus Low/High)13 versus 91.280 (0.383–4.282)0.6881.416 (0.424–4.723)0.572
Beclin-1/SIRT1 expression (High/High versus Low/High)44 versus 91.870 (1.110–3.149)1.889 (1.123–3.178)
Beclin-1/SIRT1 expression (High/High versus High/Low)44 versus 133.051 (1.409–6.604)2.853 (1.322–6.154)

BMI, body mass index; LN metastasis, lymph node metastasis; TNM stage, tumor node metastasis stage; VCE, vascular cancer embolus; WD, well differentiation; MD, middle differentiation; PD, poor differentiation; EGC, early gastric cancer; AGC, advantage gastric cancer; N, number of patients; OS, overall survival; RFS, relapse-free survival; HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; ; .