The clinical features of papillary thyroid cancer in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis patients from an area with a high prevalence of Hashimoto’s disease

Table 5 Independent risk factors for central lymph node metastatic papillary thyroid cancer, as identified by univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses

	Unadjusted OR (95% CI)	P value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	P value
Gender (Male vs. Female)	0.865 (0.722-1.037)	0.117	0.932 (0.763-1.139)	0.493
Age (≤45years vs. >45 years)	1.079 (0.923-1.261)	0.341	1.110 (0.933-1.319)	0.239
HT (HT vs. no HT)	0.497 (0.396-0.623)	0.001	0.450 (0.347-0.583)	0.001
Nodule Size (>1 cm vs. ≤1 cm)	2.507 (2.138-2.941)	0.001	2.332 (1.944-2.797)	0.001
TSH (constant)	1.303 (1.254-1.355)	0.001	1.008 (0.962-1.057)	0.727
With benign (with vs. without)	0.814 (0.696-0.952)	0.001	0.670 (0.559-0.802)	0.001
Invasion (yes vs. no)	9.804 (7.346-13.084)	0.001	10.092 (7.382-13.797)	0.001

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