Table 3.

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

Characteristics	OR	95.0% CI	P-value
Age	0.974	0.959–0.988	<0.001***
Gender	1.385	0.856–2.24	0.184
Tumor size	1.119	0.959–1.305	0.153
T stage	1.352	0.910–2.01	0.135
Extrathyroidal invasion	1.835	0.933–3.605	0.078
LIPH expression	2.470	1.601–3.81	<0.001***

Note:

^***P<0.001.

Abbreviation: LIPH, lipase H.