Inflammatory markers as selection criteria of hepatocellular carcinoma in living-donor liver transplantation

Table 2 Disease-free survival and overall survival according to neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and C-reactive protein

	Disease-free survival		Overall survival
	χ2	P value	χ2	P value
Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (n = 224)
NLR ≥ 1 (n = 195)	1.041	0.308	0.125	0.724
NLR ≥ 2 (n = 115)	2.938	0.087	2.777	0.096
NLR ≥ 3 (n = 70)	0.746	0.388	3.308	0.069
NLR ≥ 4 (n = 44)	1.132	0.287	5.301	0.021
NLR ≥ 5 (n = 34)	2.383	0.123	7.257	0.007
NLR ≥ 6 (n = 27)	3.497	0.049	8.799	0.003
NLR ≥ 7 (n = 22)	1.379	0.240	6.411	0.001
C-reactive protein (n = 145)
CRP ≥ 0.5 (n = 72)	1.359	0.244	4.032	0.045
CRP ≥ 1.0 (n = 42)	6.653	0.010	12.604	< 0.001
CRP ≥ 2.0 (n = 25)	6.974	0.008	6.728	0.009

NLR: Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio; CRP: C-reactive protein.