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

Table 4

Comparative analysis between prognosis and BMI categories by sex.

BMI category	Disease-free patients group	Persistent disease patients group
Normal
Women, n (%)	60 (26%)	10 (34.5%)
Men, n (%)	4 (13.3%)	3 (33.3%)
Overweight
Women, n (%)	90 (39%)	11 (38%)
Men, n (%)	18 (60%)	2 (22.2%)
Obese
Women, n (%)	81 (35%)	8 (27.5%)
Men, n (%)	8 (26.7%)	4 (44.5%)

value for comparison between categories: 0.571 (Chi-square test in women) and 0.1104 (Fisher exact test in men).