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. 2025 Aug 25;40(1):188. doi: 10.1007/s00384-025-04989-5

Table 4.

Subgroup analysis – Emergency surgery only

Variables Total (n = 277) Body mass index (BMI) in 2 categories (kg/m2)
BMI < 30 (n = 99) BMI ≥ 30 (n = 178) OR unadjusted (95%CI) p-value (unadjusted) OR adjusted* (95%CI) p-value (adjusted*)
BMI (median, IQR) 26.7 (7.7)
Any intra-op Complications (yes, %) 76 (27) 46 (24) 30 (36) 1.82 (1.04–3.18) 0.04 2.18 (1.19–3.97) 0.01
Any post-op complications**(yes, %) 35 (13) 27 (14) 8 (10) 0.66 (0.28–1.52) 0.33 0.66 (0.27–1.61) 0.36
Conversion rate (yes, %) 39 (25) 29 (28) 10 (20) 0.65 (0.29–1.46) 0.29 0.57 (0.24–1.34) 0.20
Laparoscopic, including conversion (yes, %) 154 (56) 104 (54) 50 (60)
Open (yes,%) 123 (44) 90 (46) 33 (40)
ICU admission (yes, %) 100 (36) 69 (36) 31 (37) 1.08 (0.63–1.84) 0.78 1.25 (0.66–2.35) 0.49
Length of ICU admission in days (mean ± sd) 3.2 ± 3.7 3.5 ± 4.3 2.5 ± 1.4 0.30 0.24
30-days mortality (yes,%) 3 (1) 2 (1) 1 (1) 0.78 0.89
Length of hospital day in days (mean ± sd) 13.2 ± 11.1 13.7 ± 11.4 12.0 ± 10.3 0.26 0.45

*Adjusted to age, sex, ASA, smoking, operation type, surgical approach (except for conversion rate)

**post-op complication includes Clavien-Dindo grade III or above