Is a Technically Challenging Procedure More Likely to Fail? A Prospective Single-Center Study on the Short- and Long-Term Outcomes of Inguinal Hernia Repair

Table 2

Univariate analysis of the risk factors for a recurrence of hernia following hernia repair.

	No recurrence ()	Recurrence ()	OR (95% CI)	value
Age (years)	57	48		ns
Operation time (min)	44	63		ns
Heavy occupational exertion, (%)	156 (40)	9 (90)	13.7 (1.9–60.4)	0.002
Recurrent hernia, (%)	54 (14)	2 (20)	1.6 (0.2–8.1)	ns
Technical difficulty, (%)
Easy/medium	343 (88)	5 (50)
Difficult	47 (12)	5 (50)	7.2 (1.6–32.7)	0.005
Chronic pain	71 (18)	6 (60)	6.7 (1.5–3 3.1)	0.005

ns: not significant.