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Table 3 Factors associated with poor optimal surgical outcomes

From: Thyroid cancer overdiagnosis and overtreatment: a cross- sectional study at a thyroid cancer referral center in Ecuador

 

Univariate analysis

Multivariate analysis

 
 

PR (95% CI)

P value

PR (95% CI)

P value

Sex

 Male

Reference

0.295

  

 Female

0.74 (0.42, 1.30)

  

Age, mean (SD)

1.00 (0.99, 1.01)

0.684

  

BMI

1.02 (0.99, 1.05)

0.191

  

Setting of Surgery

 - Tertiary Hospital

Reference

0.878

Reference

0.947

 - Non- tertiaty hospital

0.98 (0.71, 1.32)

1.01 (0.75, 1.37)

Tumor size (n = 306), mean (SD)

1.01 (1.00, 1.02)

0.001

1.01 (1.00, 1.02)

0.182

Tumor focality, n (%)

 - Unifocal

Reference

0.425

  

 - Multifocal

1.13 (0.84, 1.53)

  

Positive Central Cervical Lymph nodes metastasis, n (%)

 - No

Reference

0.004

Reference

0.017

 - Yes

1.54 (1.15, 2.06)

1.45 (1.07, 1.97)

MACIS score

1.14 (1.02, 1.28)

0.017

1.08 (0.94, 1.24)

0.285

Histology variant

 - Non- aggresive

Reference

0.651

  

 - Aggresive

1.11 (0.70, 1.79)

  

Risk recurrence

 Very low risk

Referencea

   

 Low risk

   

 Indeterminate risk

0.95 (0.51, 1.77)

0.861

  

 High risk

0.95 (0.19, 4.73)

0.946

  
  1. a For univariate and multivariate analysis low and very low risk categories were combined and taken as reference