Table 2.
Predictors of Lymphatic Pain
| Predictors | Estimate | SE | z | OR | 95% CI | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Intercept)a | −1.92 | 0.34 | −5.71 | 0.15 | 0.08–0.28 | <0.001 |
| Years since breast cancer diagnosis | −0.03 | 0.02 | −1.23 | 0.97 | 0.93–1.02 | 0.219 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 0.06 | 0.02 | 3.61 | 1.07 | 1.03–1.11 | <0.001 |
| Age (years) | −0.03 | 0.01 | −2.56 | 0.97 | 0.96–0.99 | 0.011 |
| Comfortable finance: have more than enough to make ends meet | −0.10 | 0.23 | −0.44 | 0.90 | 0.58–1.43 | 0.662 |
| Financial hardship: do not have enough to make ends meet | 1.53 | 0.44 | 3.48 | 4.64 | 1.99–11.32 | 0.001 |
| Lymphedema diagnosis | 2.27 | 0.27 | 8.45 | 9.68 | 5.78–16.63 | <0.001 |
| Mastectomy | 0.26 | 0.25 | 1.05 | 1.30 | 0.80–2.10 | 0.292 |
| Radiation therapy | 0.53 | 0.27 | 1.94 | 1.69 | 1.00–2.90 | 0.052 |
| Axillary lymph nodes dissection | 0.19 | 0.31 | 0.61 | 1.21 | 0.65–2.23 | 0.544 |
| Observations | 568 | |||||
| R2 Tjur | 0.263 |
a
Intercept reflects the odds ratio for the reference group, including people who have enough to make ends meet (moderate income level), people who had lumpectomy (vs. mastectomy), those who had no radiation and no axillary lymph node dissection, and who were of mean age, BMI, and number of years since breast cancer diagnosis.