Long-term prognosis and its associated predictive factors in patients with eosinophilic gastroenteritis

Table 3 Univariate and multivariate Cox analysis for disease relapse

	Univariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
	HR (95%CI)	P value	Coef	HR (95%CI)	P value
Age (yr)
> 40	1	0.044a		1	0.330
≤ 40	2.0408 (1.0082-4.1312)		0.6827	1.9791 (0.5013-7.8140)
BMI (kg/m2)
≤ 24	1	0.014a		1	0.037a
> 24	0.3922 (0.1916-0.8027)		-1.1375	0.3206 (0.11-0.9347)
Disease duration (mo)
≤ 3.5	1	0.011a		1	0.106
> 3.5	2.4725 (1.2200-5.0110)		0.7447	2.1058 (0.8533-5.1968)
Vomiting
No	1	0.001a		1	0.695
Yes	3.1259 (1.5246-6.4093)		0.2677	1.3069 (0.3423-4.9904)
T-IgE (KU/L)
≤ 300	1	0.022a		1	0.233
> 300	0.2773 (0.1204-0.6384)		-0.7995	0.4496 (0.121-1.6699)
Glucocorticoid treatment
No	1	0.003a		1	0.065b
Yes	6.1434 (2.8446-13.2676)		1.4038	4.0705 (0.917-18.0689)

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.10.

HR: Hazard ratio; coef: Coefficient; T-IgE: Total serum immunoglobin E; BMI: Body mass index.