Risk factors for lymph node metastasis and evaluation of reasonable surgery for early gastric cancer

Table 3 Logistic regression analysis for variables associated with lymph node metastasis in EGC

Explanatory variables	Odds ratio	95% CI	P value
Depth of invasion	3.67	1.62-8.30	0.002
Histological type	3.39	1.39-8.27	0.007
Lymphatic invasion	8.41	2.86-24.74	< 0.001
Tumor maximum diameter	1.23	1.0-1.49	0.042
Gender	1.10	0.46-2.21	0.981
Age	0.99	0.97-1.03	0.726
Tumor location	0.60	0.29-1.23	0.161
Growth manner	0.58	0.26-1.30	0.186
Macroscopic type	1.14	0.56-2.34	0.715

CI: Confidence interval. Depth of invasion, histological type, lymphatic invasion and tumor maximum diameter are the independent risk factors correlated with lymph node involvement.