Table 3.

Bivariate analysis of postoperative complications of patients following open rotator cuff repair.

Complications	No DM	NIDDM	p-value: NIDDM vs No DM a	IDDM	p-value: IDDM vs No DM a	p-value: IDDM vs NIDDM a
Total patients, n	6256	975		447
Any complication, n (%)	93 (1.5)	12 (1.2)	0.535	11 (2.5)	0.107	0.088
Major complication, n (%) b	22 (0.4)	1 (0.1)	0.199	4 (0.9)	0.074	0.019
Minor complication, n (%) c	62 (1.0)	10 (1.0)	0.919	7 (1.6)	0.245	0.384
Death, n (%)	1 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0.693	1 (0.2)	0.014	0.140
Wound complication, n (%)	34 (0.5)	5 (0.5)	0.903	5 (1.1)	0.122	0.204
Cardiac complication, n (%)	4 (0.1)	1 (0.1)	0.670	1 (0.2)	0.232	0.571
Pulmonary complication, n (%)	10 (0.2)	3 (0.3)	0.311	2 (0.4)	0.165	0.679
Renal complication, n (%)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	-	0 (0.0)	-	-
Thromboembolic complication, n (%)	21 (0.3)	1 (0.1)	0.219	2 (0.4)	0.696	0.188
Sepsis complication, n (%)	1 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0.693	0 (0.0)	0.789	-
Urinary tract infection, n (%)	19 (0.3)	2 (0.2)	0.595	1 (0.2)	0.765	0.943
Postoperative transfusion, n (%)	6 (0.1)	1 (0.1)	0.950	0 (0.0)	0.512	0.498
Postoperative admission, n (%)	1441 (23.0)	234 (24.0)	0.506	114 (25.5)	0.232	0.540
Extended length of stay, n (%)	62 (1.0)	12 (1.2)	0.489	10 (2.2)	0.014	0.153
Reoperation, n (%)	40 (0.6)	9 (0.9)	0.315	6 (1.3)	0.082	0.473
Readmission, n (%)	78 (1.8)	12 (1.7)	0.864	13 (4.0)	0.005	0.025

^a Pearson's chi-squared test.

^b Includes cardiac arrest, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, unplanned intubation, sepsis, septic shock, acute renal failure, or mortality.

^c Includes urinary tract infection, pneumonia, deep venous thrombosis, superficial surgical site infection, or deep surgical site infection.

DM, diabetes mellitus; NIDDM, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus; IDDM, insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.

Bolding indicates that the p-value is significant, which means that it is less than 0.05.