Table 1.

Morbidity in age-matched patients (non-cardiac surgery) (Monk et al., 2008).

Time point	Morbidity in young patients	Morbidity in middle-age patients	Morbidity in elderly patients
At hospital discharge	36.6%	30.4%	41.4%
At 3 months after surgery	5.7%	5.6%	12.7%