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Table  1 shows the results of 3 proportional hazards models to predict 45-year all cause mortality by either forcing all variables or by forward or backward stepwise approaches.

Backward stepwise approach was then used to successively remove non-significant interactions in the full models.

To identify independent predictors for time to death, we entered all significant variables from the univariate analysis into a Cox regression model using a backward stepwise approach.

We used a backward stepwise approach.

A backward stepwise approach was used to construct the models.

Logistic regression analysis with a backward stepwise approach was employed to identify variables associated with TOD.

This analysis was modeled using multiple linear regression analysis with a backward, stepwise approach.

A backward stepwise approach was used to eliminate variables with p>0.10 to determine a final model.

Table 3 demonstrates the result of the final logistic regression model with backward stepwise approach.

Backward stepwise approach was used to restrict the model to the five most predictive cytokines.

With the deterministic backward stepwise approach, we obtained 17 models containing from 9 to 57 genes.