Interplay between Body Size Measures and Thyroid Cancer Aggressiveness: A Retrospective Analysis

Table 3

Significant findings from a comparison of categorical variables and anthropometric data.

Assessed characteristic	Variable	Mean ± SD	Median	value
Extrathyroid invasion (< 45 years old)				value no × yes
No ()	Initial weight (kg)	70.17 ± 14.52	67	0.0253
	Initial BSA (m^2)	1.74 ± 0.18	1.74	0.0096
	Last weight (kg)	73.33 ± 14.48	72	0.0307
	Last BSA (m^2)	1.77 ± 0.18	1.76	0.0105
Yes ()	Initial weight (kg)	78.18 ± 17.98	79.5
	Initial BSA (m^2)	1.85 ± 0.22	1.85
	Last weight (kg)	82.20 ± 19.71	80.9
	Last BSA (m^2)	1.89 ± 0.23	1.89
Differentiation (women)				value well × poorly^†
Well-differentiated ()	Weight change (kg)	+1.96 ± 6.07	+1.6	0.0306
Poorly differentiated ()	Weight change (kg)	−3.92 ± 5.4	−2
Late distant metastasis (> 45 years old)				value no × yes^∗
No ()	Weight change (kg)	+0.67 ± 5.66	+1	0.0370
Yes ()	Weight change (kg)	−3.92 ± 5.4	−3

comparison of median values by Mann–Whitney test, ^†comparison of median values by Kruskal-Wallis test.