Table 1.

Characteristics of Participants

Patient Characteristics	Patients with a History of Obesity Surgery (n = 171)	Patients without a History of Obesity Surgery (n = 301)	P
Age, y (mean ± SD)	36.9 ± 9.9	42.4 ± 9.2	0.001
Male gender	45 (26.3%)	25 (8.3%)	0.001
Female gender	126 (73.7%)	276 (91.7%)
Smoking	33 (20.5%)	22 (8.0%)	0.001
BMI before body contouring surgery (mean ± SD)	30.3 ± 5.1	30.2 ± 4.4	0.84
Hypertension	20 (11.7%)	45 (15.0%)	0.32
Time between obesity surgery and body contouring surgery (mean ± SD)	35.8 ± 20.9	—	—