Clinicopathologic characteristics of gastric carcinoma in elderly patients: A comparison with young patients

Table 3 Multivariate analysis of factors associated with elderly patients with gastric carcinoma.

Variables	Odds ratio	95% CI	P value
Gender (male vs female)	0.768	0.434-1.360	NS
Tumor location (upper vs distal)	0.467	0.231-0.944	NS
Tumor size (cm) (<5 vs >5)	1.618	0.942-2.778	NS
Depth of invasion (mucosa vs submucosa)	1.061	0.924-1.217	NS
Histologic type (differentiated vs undifferentiated)	2.041	1.244-3.350	0.005
Resectability (curative vs non-curative)	3.077	1.681-5.635	<0.001
Lymph node metastasis (negative vs positive)	3.626	1.985-6.622	<0.001
Age (yr) (>70 vs <70)	1.308	0.845-1.107	NS

CI: confidence interval, NS: not significant.