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Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2009 Dec 11;139(2):395. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.10.005

Table 4.

Analysis of the impact of radiographic recurrence on GERD-related and overall patient health status at current clinical follow-up

		Radiographic Recurrence^a
	All patients	Yes	No
Satisfied with Surgery and Current Symptoms	n=493
yes	440 (89)	37 (90)	284 (91)	0.79^e
no	53 (11)	4 (10)	30 (9)

	n=489	n=41	n=312	p-value

GERD-HRQoL^b	1 (0–4)	1 (0–4)	2 (0–6)	0.33^d
Excellent to Good^c	438 (90)	36 (88)	279 (89)	0.79^e
Fair to Poor^c	51 (10)	5 (12)	33 (11)

Short-form 36 Health Survey^b	n=476	n=40	n=304	p-value

Physical Component Summary (PCS)	51 (40–57)	54 (48–57)	51 (40–57)	0.12^d
Mental Component Summary (MCS)	53 (47–56)	53 (49–56)	53 (49–56)	0.62^d

Includes only patients with current barium esophagram and SF-36 score. Results for patients requiring reoperation were censored at the date of reoperation

Results presented as median (IQR)

GERD-HRQoL scale: excellent (score 0–5), good (score 6–10), fair (score 11–15), poor (score >15); Results presented as n(%)

Two-sample Wilcoxon rank-sum (Mann-Whitney) test

Fisher’s exact test for independence