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 3

Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis of risk factors for chronic pain following inguinal hernia repair.

	No pain	Chronic pain	Univariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
	()	()	OR (95% CI)	value	OR (95% CI)	value
Age (years)	57	53	0.98 (0.96–0.99)	0.02	0.98 (0.96–0.99)	0.009
Recurrent hernia, (%)	33 (8.5)	23 (25.7)	3.7 (1.9–7.1)	<0.001	3.7 (1.9–6.9)	<0.001
Operation type, (%)
TEP	184 (57)	32 (41)	0.5 (0.3–0.9)	0.008	0.6 (0.4–1.0)	0.059
Others	138 (43)	46 (59)

Others: TAPP, Shouldice, and Lichtenstein.