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Table IV.

Multivariate logistic regression analysis of preoperative clinicopathologic predictors of central lymph node metastases in patients with papillary thyroid cancer

	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval	P value
BRAF mutation	1.94	0.604–6.25	.266
Age (≥45 yrs)	0.752	0.248–2.28	.615
Gender (female)	0.945	0.239–3.74	.936
Race (white)	1.15	0.280–4.70	.848
Size (>2 cm)	3.03	0.973–9.42	.056