Table 2.

Univariate logistic regression analysis for the risk of lymph-node metastasis

Characteristics	OR	95% CI	P-value
Age	0.981	0.969–0.994	0.003**
Gender	1.571	1.03–2.394	0.036*
Histological type	0.831	0.639–1.08	0.167
Tumor size	1.187	1.053–1.339	0.005**
T stage	1.827	1.459–2.288	<0.001***
Unilateral or bilateral	1.597	0.985–2.589	0.057
Multifocal or unifocal	1.456	0.997–2.127	0.052
Thyroiditis	0.86	0.515–1.436	0.565
Extrathyroidalinvasion	2.716	1.776–4.156	<0.001***
Metastasis	1.165	0.285–4.759	0.831
LIPH expression	2.577	1.755–3.784	<0.001***

Note:

^*P<0.05,

^**P<0.01,

^***P<0.001.

Abbreviation: LIPH, lipase H.