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Table 4 Association of IR signs and overall mortality and disease-specific mortality after controlling for clinicopathological variables

From: The association of infrared imaging findings of the breast with prognosis in breast cancer patients: an observational cohort study

  

Overall mortality

Disease-specific mortality

Variable

n

HR

95 % CI

p

HR

95 % CI

p

IR parametera

 IR1

   

0.01

  

0.02

  IR1 = 0

109

1

 

1

 

  IR1 = 1

34

3.85

1.37–10.81

3.91

1.22–12.59

 IR2

   

0.65

  

0.30

  IR2 = 0

61

1

 

1

 

  IR2 = 1

82

0.80

0.30–2.15

0.56

0.18–1.68

 IR3

   

0.88

  

0.93

  IR3 = 0

12

1

 

1

 

  IR3 = 1

131

0.85

0.10–6.96

1.11

0.13–9.44

 IR4

   

0.98

  

0.16

  IR4 = 0

114

1

 

1

 

  IR4 = 1

29

1.01

0.33–3.10

2.26

0.74–6.93

 IR5

   

0.85

  

0.60

  IR5 = 0

26

1

 

1

 

  IR5 = 1

117

1.14

0.31–4.17

0.69

0.18–2.66

  1. Estimated by multivariate Cox proportional hazards model
  2. Clinicopathological variables: age, clinical tumor staging, pathological tumor grade, molecular subtypes
  3. HR hazard ratio, 95 % CI 95 % confidence interval
  4. aIR imaging signs are defined in Table 1; 0 = negative, 1 = positive