Background: Thyroid cancer incidence is increasing nowadays. Bethesda system classifies fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology into six categories linked to cancer risk. Several papers have studied relationships between thyroid pathology results and age, gender, and body mass index (BMI), but very few have taken into consideration the Bethesda score. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the Bethesda system and age, gender, and BMI.
Methods: All the patients who underwent an ultrasound-guided FNA of a thyroid nodule between November 2017 and September 2020 were included in this study (668 subjects, 80.7% women, mean age 50.1 ± 13.3 years). Bethesda classification results, age, gender, and BMI were collected from the archives of the institution’s Pathology Department. Results: The observed proportions of the incremental Bethesda classes (1 through 6) were…
