Vitamin D Deficiency as a Predictive Factor of Transient Hypocalcemia after Total Thyroidectomy

Table 1

Patients’ characteristics.

	Normocalcemic	Hypocalcemic	value
Patient number, n (%)	114 (64.4)	63 (35.6)	—
Age, mean ± SD	52.6 ± 14.0	50.1 ± 13.6	0.172^a
Gender, n (%)	—	—	0.044^b
Female	86 (75.4)	55 (87.3)	—
Male	28 (24.6)	8 (12.7)	—
Body mass index, mean ± SD	27.5 ± 5.2	26.5 ± 6.4	0.072^a
Underweight	2 (1.8)	1 (1.6)	0.147^b
Normal weight	34 (29.8)	28 (44.4)	—
Overweight/obese	78 (68.4)	34 (54.0)	—
Menopause, n (%)	50 (43.9)	23 (36.5)	0.061^b
Smoking, n (%)	30 (26.3)	15 (23.8)	0.946^b

^aMann–Whitney U test. ^bPearson’s chi-square test.