Table 1.
Baseline characteristics and incidence of wound infections.
| Characteristics | All Patients (N = 616) |
No Wound Infection (N = 462) |
Wound Infection (N = 154) |
p Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years), median (range) | 66 (19–95) | 67 (10–95) | 65 (14–91) | 0.2 |
| Male gender, n (%) | 422 (68.5) | 310 (67.1) | 112 (72.7) | 0.63 |
| BMI < 17, n (%) | 61 (9.9) | 45 (9.7) | 16 (10.4) | 0.4 |
| Nicotine, n (%) | 107 (17.4) | 70 (15.2) | 37 (24.0) | 0.01 |
| Alcoholism, n (%) | 63 (10.2) | 37 (8.0) | 26 (16.9) | 0.27 |
| Liver cirrhosis, n (%) | 23 (3.7) | 20 (4.3) | 3 (1.9) | 0.1 |
| HIV, n (%) | 15 (2.4) | 14 (3.0) | 1 (0.6) | 0.13 |
| Diabetes mellitus, n (%) | 64 (10.4) | 50 (10.8) | 14 (9.1) | 0.68 |
| Cardiovascular disease, n (%) | 195 (31.7) | 139 (30.1) | 56 (36.4) | 0.1 |
| Malignant disease, n (%) | 424 (68.8) | 288 (62.3) | 136 (88.3) | <0.001 |
| Head and neck cancer, n (%) | 364 (59.1) | 240 (51.9) | 124 (80.5) | <0.001 |
| Esophageal carcinoma, n (%) | 22 (3.6) | 17 (3.7) | 5 (3.2) | 0.82 |
| Other cancer, n (%) | 48 (7.8) | 37 (8.0) | 11 (7.1) | 0.76 |
| Ischemic Stroke, n (%) | 53 (8.6) | 14 (3.0) | 39 (25.3) | 0.01 |
| Parkinson’s disease, n (%) | 19 (3.1) | 16 (3.5) | 3 (1.9) | 0.37 |
| Dementia, n (%) | 19 (3.1) | 17 (3.7) | 2 (1.3) | 0.16 |
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, n (%) | 12 (1.9) | 10 (2.2) | 2 (1.3) | 0.51 |
| Other neurological disease, n (%) | 31 (5.0) | 24 (5.2) | 7 (4.5) | 0.02 |
| Malnutrition, n (%) | 7 (1.1) | 6 (1.3) | 1 (0.6) | 0.52 |