Circulating neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio at admission predicts the long-term outcome in acute traumatic cervical spinal cord injury patients

Table 4 Multivariate logistic regression analysis predicting the 6-months outcome

Independent variable	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	p value
Age	0.91 (0.86–0.97)	< 0.001
GCS at admission	1.18 (0.93–1.34)	0.713
Charleson Co-morbidity Index > 1	1.02 (0.88–1.16)	0.328
Coagulopathy	0.84 (0.64–0.97)	0.003
Baseline AIS grade
A	1	–
B	0.51 (0.39–0.81)	< 0.001
C	0.59 (0.28–0.72)	< 0.001
D	0.62 (0.41–0.93)	< 0.001
Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio	0.93 (0.87–0.98)	< 0.001

CI confidence interval. OR odds ratio. The reference category value was transformed from 0 to 1 to compare subgroups

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