Table 1.
Demographics and clinical characteristics of the sample.
| Group | Total |
p-value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CS | PFS |
|||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
| Average age (years) | 56.7 | 62.8 | 0.002d | |||||
| Gender | Female | 112 | 75.7 | 37 | 64.9 | 149 | 72.7 | 0.121ª |
| Male | 36 | 24.3 | 20 | 35.1 | 56 | 27.3 | ||
| Hypertension | 43 | 29.1 | 30 | 58.8 | 73 | 36.7 | <0.001ª | |
| Diabetes | 12 | 8.1 | 15 | 29.4 | 27 | 13.6 | <0.001ª | |
| Smoking | 13 | 8.8 | 3 | 6.3 | 16 | 8.2 | 0.765b | |
| Physical activity | 38 | 25.9 | 14 | 31.1 | 52 | 27.1 | 0.487a | |
| BMI Average (kg/m2) | 27.0 | 31.3 | <0.001c | |||||
| Underweight/Eutrophic | 51 | 35.2 | 13 | 26 | 64 | 32.8 | ||
| Overweight | 59 | 40.7 | 13 | 26 | 72 | 36.9 | ||
| Obesity class 1 | 31 | 21.4 | 11 | 22 | 42 | 21.5 | ||
| Obesity class 2 | 3 | 2.1 | 9 | 18 | 12 | 6.2 | ||
| Obesity class 3 | 1 | 0.7 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2.6 | ||
Statistical tests: Chi-Square (a); Fisher's test (b); likelihood ratio (c); Student's t-test (d).
CS, Conventional Surgery; PFS, Polidocanol Foam Sclerotherapy; BMI, Body Mass Index.