The Role of Establishing a Multidisciplinary Team for Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis in Improving Patient Outcomes and Spreading Awareness about Recent Disease Trends

Table 3

Correlation analysis of clinical characteristics of IGM with patient age and BMI at presentation.

Characteristics	All patients ()				Patients with recurrence ()
	Age, years		BMI, kg/m^2		Age, years		BMI, kg/m^2
	rho	-value	rho	-value	rho	-value	rho	-value
Size of mass at presentation, cm	0.038	0.862	−0.570	0.007	−0.241	0.566	−0.879	0.009
Duration for presence of mass, months	−0.049	0.809	0.230	0.280	−0.182	0.615	0.025	0.948
Duration of prednisolone treatment, weeks	0.326	0.327	0.350	0.322	0.754	0.084	0.543	0.266
Size of tissue removed, cm	−0.001	0.995	0.145	0.509	0.428	0.218	0.168	0.666
Ratio between mass size and removed tissue	0.467	0.092	−0.286	0.368	0.410	0.493	0.211	0.789
Time to recurrence, months	—	—	—	—	−0.836	0.003	−0.232	0.548
Number of recurrence episodes	—	—	—	—	0.102	0.766	0.172	0.636
Size of recurrence mass, cm	—	—	—	—	−0.633	0.127	0.087	0.870

rho, Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Indicates statistical significance at . BMI, body mass index.Bold values represent statistically significant findings in correlation analysis.