Table 5.

Association of factors with the incidence of early and late complications of thyroidectomy

Covariates	Early complications		Late complications
	OR (95% CI)	P	OR (95% CI)	P
Sex
Male	Reference		Reference
Female	1.090 (0.45-2.65)	0.850	1.011 (0.353-2.897)	0.984
BMI categories
Normal	Reference		Reference
Low weight	3.591 (0.42-10.50)	0.242	4.679 (0.963-16.746)	0.065
Over weight	0.655 (0.30-1.42)	0.282	0.890 (0.318-2.489)	0.824
Obesity	1.206 (0.29-4.94)	0.794	0.009 (0.000-0.021)	0.999
Age categories (year)
<40	Reference		Reference
40-60	0.616 (0.28-1.37)	0.235	1.260 (0.495-3.205)	0.627
>60	1.166 (0.31-4.39)	0.820	4.800 (1.586-14.530)	0.006
Past Medical history	1.625 (0.78-3.36)	0.191	1.860 (0.730-4.744)	0.194
Surgical indications
Multinodular goiter	Reference		Reference
Grave’s disease	-	-	-	-
FNA	0.716 (0.31-1.64)	0.429	1.649 (0.578-4.700)	0.349
MTG	1.106 (0.25-4.90)	0.894	1.585 (0.249-10.093)	0.626
Surgical type
Lobectomy	Reference		Reference
Total thyroidectomy	1.222 (0.32-4.65)	0.769	1.890 (0.395-9.051)	0.426
Subtotal thyroidectomy	0.244 (0.02-2.61)	0.244	0.003 (0.000-0.009)	0.999
Near-total thyroidectomy	0.939 (0.20-4.39)	0.936	3.442 (0.406-29.157)	0.257
Other*	1.675 (0.34-8.32)	0.529	3.462 (0.556-23.871)	0.178
Volume surgeon
High-volume surgeon	Reference		Reference
Intermediate-volume surgeon	2.375 (1.75-7.50)	0.040	2.723 (1.099-6.742)	0.030
Low-volume surgeon	2.542 (1.216-5.31)	0.013	2.931 (0.887-9.684)	0.038

*Other surgical type: Lymph node dissection (central or lateral) + thyroidectomy. Suspicious FNA: Suspicious fine-needle aspiration, MTG: Medullary thyroid garcia, BMI: Body mass index, CI: Confidence interval, OR: Odd ratio