Impact of Obesity on Clinicopathologic Characteristics and Disease Prognosis in Pre- and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Patients: A Retrospective Institutional Study

Table 5

Multivariate logistic stepwise regression analysis of factors predictive of disease recurrence and death in breast cancer patients.

Outcomes/predictors	Odds ratio	95% confidence limits		value
		Lower	Upper
Recurrence
BMI	2.215	1.200	4.089	0.0110
Grade	1.958	1.163	3.297	0.0115
LVI	2.527	1.083	5.896	0.0320
Death
BMI	2.381	0.799	7.098	0.1102
Stage	2.447	1.328	4.747	0.0026

Statistical significance at . BMI, body mass index; LVI, lymphovascular invasion.