Table 3.

Possible risks for symptomatic hypocalcemia.

Risk factors	OR (95% CI)	P value
Univariate analysis
Age >60 y	1.57 (0.55–4.48)	0.404
Female sex	1.52 (0.60–425)	0.538
Thyroid cancer	1.42 (0.53–3.80)	0.480
Central neck dissection	5.25 (1.59–7.23)	0.006
Lateral neck dissection	1.19 (0.87–6.42)	0.069
Parathyroid autotransplantation	2.76 (1.06–17.19)	0.038
Multivariate analysis
Age >60 y	0.93 (0.19–5.34)	0.873
Female sex	1.04 (0.56–4.59)	0.643
Thyroid cancer	0.87 (0.49–6.03)	0.776
Central neck dissection	3.53 (1.32–10.57)	0.016
Lateral neck dissection	1.15 (0.74–9.54)	0.557
Parathyroid autotransplantation	1.98 (0.77–8.64)	0.144

Bold values are statistically significant.

OR indicates odds ratio.