Preoperative Total Serum Cholesterol and Patients' Survival in Resected Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer

Table 2

Results of univariate analysis.

	Favorable	Unfavorable	Risk ratio	95% CI	P value
Age	>65	≤65	0.7315	0.481–1.091	0.1270
Gender	Female	Male	0.4668	0.292–0.720	0.0004
Histology	Adenocarcinoma	Others	0.3858	0.263–0.572	<0.0001
pT status	pT1	pT2-3	0.3090	0.204–0.459	<0.0001
pN status	pN0	pN1-2	0.2882	0.196–0.427	<0.0001
serum CEA	Normal	High	0.5306	0.361–0.778	0.0012
TSC	Normal/high	Low	0.4565	0.237–1.021	0.0557

CI: Confidence interval, CEA: carcinoembryonic antigen, and TSC: total serum cholesterol.