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Table 3 Patients’ characteristics, surgical technique, and perioperative results for the total cohort, the subgroup with cardiovascular disease (CVD), and the subgroup without cardiovascular conditions (NO)

From: Risk factors for early and late morbidity in patients with cardiovascular disease undergoing inguinal hernia repair with a tailored approach: a single-center cohort study

 

All patients n = 474

CVD n = 148

NO n = 326

p

Age, median (range)

58 (24)

70 (18)

52 (19)

 < 0.001

Male, n (%)

388 (81.9%)

124 (83.8%)

264 (81%)

0.463

Female, n (%)

86 (18.1%)

24 (16.2%)

62 (19%)

 

ASA, n (%)

   

 < 0.001

 1

8 (1.7%)

1 (0.7%)

7 (2.2%)

 

 2

430 (92.1%)

121 (85.2%)

309 (95.1%)

 

 3

29 (6.2%)

20 (14.1%)

9 (2.8%)

 

 4

0

0

0

 

 5

0

0

0

 

BMI, mean (range)

25.3 (16.3–53)

26.1 (17–53)

24.9 (16.3–41)

0.005

Antithrombotic treatment

49 (10.3%)

49 (33.1%)

0

< 0.001

Lichtenstein n (%)

223 (47%)

102 (68.9%)

121 (37.1%)

 < 0.001

TAPP n (%)

251 (53%)

46 (31.1%)

205 (62.9%)

 

Anesthesia

    

General, n (%)

468 (98.7%)

148 (100%)

320 (98.2%)

0.033

Regional, n (%)

6 (1.3%)

0

6 (1.8%)

 

Local

0

0

0

 

Operating time (min), median (range)

70.9 (20–212)

69.9 (25–210)

71.3 (20–212)

0.544

Days of hospital stay, mean (range)

3 (0–41)

3 (0–17)

3 (0–42)

0.021

  1. Data are presented as the median (age and duration of hospital stay) or the mean (BMI and operating time) and their range for continuous variables and as total number and percentages (%) for binary variables. The p-value indicates the level of statistical significance.