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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Vasc Surg. 2008 Nov;48(5):1092–1100.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.06.036

Table III.

Base-line characteristics of the patients who had open or endovascular ruptured aortic abdominal aneurysm repair

Characteristic Endo AAA group (n = 1,064) Open AAA group (n = 41,969) P value
Age (years) 76.96 ± 0.45 75.9 ± 0.07 <.0001
Female gender (%) 25.84% 22.87% .0228
White race (%) 91.35% 93.68% .0021
Black race (%) 6.39% 3.86% <.0001
Asian race (%) 0.66% 0.47% .3839
Native American race (%) 0.09% 0.12% .8295
Hispanic ethnicity (%) 0.75% 0.51% .2824
Comorbidities (%)
 Diabetes 11.75% 8.43% .0001
 Hypertension 57.33% 45.16% <.0001
 Chronic pulmonary 40.22% 37.51% .0705
 Coronary 35.24% 27.53% <.0001
 Congestive heart failure 23.21% 21.64% .2176
 Cardiac arrhythmia 32.80% 28.91% .0057
 Valvular diseases 7.89% 5.28% .0002
 Clinically significant lower extremity 4.42% 6.10% .0233
 Renal atherosclerosis 2.63% 0.66% <.0001
 Vascular intestine disease 0.66% 0.24% .0164
 Kidney transplant 0.56% 0.10% .0009
 Renal failure 9.21% 6.45% .0003
 Cerebrovascular 9.02% 6.04% <.0001
 Other neurological 5.36% 5.00% .6069
 Liver diseases 1.12% 1.27% .6774
 Hyperlipidemia 17.01% 8.46% <.0001
 Cancer 6.20% 4.25% .0019
 Rheumatoid arthritis 2.73% 1.83% .0324
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Plus-minus values are: means ± 95% confidence interval.