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. 2023 Mar 22;57(1):111–120. doi: 10.2478/raon-2023-0003

Table 1.

Patients’ clinical characteristics



All subjects
Stronger postoperative analgesia with tramadol/paracetamol
Weaker postoperative analgesia with tramadol/paracetamol
Sample size

N = 113
N = 55
N = 58
Characteristic N (%) N (%) N (%)
Age (years) Median (25–75 %) 55 (48–63) 57 (49–64) 53,5 (47.8–61)
Weight (kg) Median (25–75 %) 72 (63.5–82) 72 (64–82) 72 (63–82.3)
Body Mass Index (kg/m2) Median (25–75 %) 27.1 (23.4–31.0) 26.7 (23.0–30.8) 27.6 (23.5–31.2)
Smoking No 87 (77.7) [1] 41 (75.9) [1] 46 (79.3)
Yes 25 (22.3) 13 (24.1) 12 (20.7)
ASA score 1 22 (19.6) [1] 10 (18.2) 12 (21.1) [1]
2 81 (72.3) 39 (70.9) 42 (73.7)
3 9 (8.0) 6 (10.9) 3 (5.3)
Side of the operation Left 62 (54.9) 30 (54.5) 32 (55.2)
Right 50 (44.2) 24 (43.6) 26 (44.8)
Bilateral 1 (0.9) 1 (1.8) 0 (0.0)
Tumor grade 1 4 (3.6) [1] 1 (1.9) [1] 3 (5.2)
1–2 3 (2.7) 2 (3.7) 1 (1.7)
2 39 (34.8) 17 (31.5) 22 (37.9)
2–3 8 (7.1) 2 (3.7) 6 (10.3)
3 58 (51.3) 32 (59.3) 26 (44.8)
VAS after 7 days Median (25–75 %) 2 (1–3) [5] 1.3 (1–2) [3] 2 (1–3) [2]
VAS after 14 days Median (25–75 %) 1.5 (0–2) [11] 1 (0–2) [9] 2 (1–2) [2]
VAS after 21 days Median (25–75 %) 1 (0.4–2) [11] 1 (0–2) [9] 1 (1–2) [2]
VAS after 28 days Median (25–75 %) 1 (0–2) [14] 1 (0–1) [10] 1 (1–2) [4]

ASA = American Society of Anaesthesiology; N = sample size; [n] = number of missing data; VAS = visual analog scale

Genotype frequencies, MAF, and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium analysis (PHWE) of investigated polymorphisms in all patients enrolled in our study are presented in Table 2.