Table 3.

Potential preoperative predictors for postoperative dysphagia according to the multivariate logistic model after a variable selection using AIC

	Coef	SE	Z	P >|z|	Odd ratio	95% Confidence interval
Sex	0.5734	0.3561	1.6104	0.1073	1.77437	0.882977–3.565678
HH	−1.2587	0.2928	−4.2996	0.0000	0.284019	0.160014–0.504124
Esophagitis	−0.8507	0.4050	−2.1004	0.0357	0.427110	0.193099–0.944711
Overweight	−1.1108	0.3304	−3.3617	0.0008	0.329287	0.172308–0.629280
LINX® size ≤ 14	−0.8831	0.4769	−1.8519	0.0640	0.413495	0.162392–1.052874
LINX® size ≤ 13	1.8711	0.7035	2.6597	0.0078	6.495119	1.636024–25.786035

Data were obtained and statistics applied, as described in Methods

^aHiatal hernia