Table 3.

Multivariate Cox regression analysis of predicting factors for thyroid cancer relapse

	OR (95% CI)	p
Sex	1.404	(0.63–3.13)	0.408
Age	0.996	(0.99–1.03)	0.822
Clinical staging	1.851	(1.04–3.47)	0.038
Pathological types	1.373	(0.96–2.48)	0.277
Noncompliance with thyroxin therapy	1.935	(1.03–3.65)	0.042
Thyroglobulin	1.892	(1.01–3.56)	0.032
VEGF	1.203	(0.95–1.52)	0.125