Incidence and Risk Factors of Thyroid Malignancy in Patients with Toxic Nodular Goiter

Table 3

Regression analysis to detect risk factors of malignancy in TNG.

Variables	Univariate analysis	Multivariate analysis
		OR	95% CI for OR	value
Age	0.590
Male gender	0.028	2.713	1.207–8.423	0.043
Diabetes	0.748
Hypertension	0.383
Chronic liver disease	0.999
Family history of cancer thyroid	0.999
TMNG	0.001	3.530	1.642–11.965	0.022
Size of the nodules	0.301

OR: odds ratio.