Table 1.

Patients characteristic of studied groups. (Means ± SD)

	Glycine group (n = 120)	Glucose group (n = 120)	Saline group (n = 120)
Age (years)	60.7 ± 5.1	60.9 ± 4.9	62 ± 6.5
Operative time (min)	57.1 ± 8.2	58.3 ± 10.8	62.5 ± 11.2
Resection wt (gm)	89.16 ± 18.3	91.94 ± 16	82.5 ± 15.5
Catheterization time (days)	2.4 ± 0.71	1.67 ± 0.45	1.54 ± 0.34
Hospital stay (days)	3.31 ± 0.63	2.29 ± 0.46	2.19 ± 0.38

Analysis of variance tests were used.