Table 4.

Multivariate analysis of laboratory values, and patients’ characteristics associated with anastomotic leakage.

	Odds ratio	95%CI	p-value
Postoperative serum sodium level	1.176	1.049–1.318	0.006
Tumor location	3.396	0.114–0.762	0.012
Sex	1.422	0.288–1.719	0.440
Age	0.987	0.951–1.023	0.468
Postoperative leukocyte count	0.815	0.357–1.861	0.627
Postoperative neutrophil count	0.993	0.363–2.721	0.990
Postoperative neutrophil %	1.003	0.930–1.082	0.932
Type of operation	1.238	0.332–1.964	0.637
Defunctioning stoma	0.815	0.318–4.725	0.767