Research Article
Interplay between Body Size Measures and Thyroid Cancer Aggressiveness: A Retrospective Analysis
Table 5
Comparative analysis between prognosis and BSA quartiles by sex.
| | BSA quartile | Disease-free patients group | Persistent disease patients group |
| | Quartile 1 | | Women | 58 (25%) | 7 (24%) | | Men | 7 (23.3%) | 3 (33.3%) | | Quartile 2 | | Women | 53 (23%) | 9 (31%) | | Men | 7 (23.3%) | 3 (33.3%) | | Quartile 3 | | Women | 61 (26.5%) | 8 (27.5%) | | Men | 8 (26.7%) | 2 (22.4%) | | Quartile 4 | | Women | 59 (25.5%) | 5 (17.5%) | | Men | 8 (26.7%) | 1 (11%) |
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value for comparison between categories: 0.6935 (Chi-square test in women) and 0.84 (Fisher exact test in men). |
