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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2009 Nov 22;6(1):22–30. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2009.10.007

Table 1.

Patient characteristics (frequency and percentage, unless otherwise noted)

Characteristic Total (N=3802) Primary participants (N=3577) Revisional participants (n = 225) p value*
Patient age (years), mean, median 44.22 43.98 47.95 <.001
44.0 44.0 49.0
Patient age (years) <.001
<30 390 10.3 380 10.6 10 4.4
30–39 990 26 952 26.6 38 16.9
40–49 1108 29.1 1043 29.2 65 28.9
50–59 991 26.1 899 25.1 92 40.9
60–64 238 6.3 225 6.3 13 5.8
65+ 85 2.2 78 2.2 7 3.1
BMI (kg/m^2), mean, median 48.51 48.98 40.95 <.001
47.0 47.3 41.2
BMI (kg/m^2) <.001
<35 89 2.3 25 0.7 64 28.6
35–<40 391 10.3 353 9.9 38 17
40–<50 1919 50.5 1844 51.6 75 33.5
50–< 60 1019 26.8 983 27.5 36 16.1
60+ 383 10.1 372 10.4 11 4.9
Male 761 20 732 20.5 29 12.9 0.01
Patient race white 3365 89.3 3159 89.1 206 92.4 0.13
missing, n 34 32 2
Hispanic 240 6.3 227 6.3 13 5.8 0.73
missing, n 1 1 0
Smoker within last 0.29
year 584 15.4 555 15.5 29 12.9
missing, n 1 1 0
*

Chi-square test for categorical variables (with continuity correction for categorical data), Kruskal-Wallis test for continuous variables