Table III.

Unweighted outcomes in obese patients with and without metabolic syndrome.

Complication or other outcome	Obese with MetS, %	Obese without MetS, %	p-value
Length of stay, days	3.3	3.2	< 0.0001*
Discharge home	61.03	68.35	< 0.0001†
Central nervous system	0.07	0.08	0.8346†
Cardiac	0.72	0.55	< 0.0001†
Deep vein thrombosis	0.34	0.34	0.9913†
Gastrointestinal	0.26	0.22	0.0163†
Genitourinary	0.57	0.41	< 0.0001†
Haematoma/seroma	0.55	0.54	0.6762†
Postoperative infection	0.15	0.15	0.9265†
Pulmonary embolism	0.4	0.45	0.3785†
Postoperative anaemia	24.67	21.38	< 0.0001†
Peripheral vascular disease	0.10	0.11	0.6005†
Respiratory	0.13	0.14	0.6673†
Wound dehiscence	0.11	0.10%	0.3623

^*Independent-samples t-test.

^†Chi-squared test.

MetS, metabolic syndrome.