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Table 2.

Postoperative Complications

	Non-diabetics (N = 184,951)	Diabetics
	Non-diabetics (N = 184,951)	All Diabetics (N = 33,583)	Uncomplicated Diabetes (N = 31,313)	Complicated Diabetes (N = 2,270)
Any postoperative complication	31.2%	27.9%^a	27.5%^a	33.5%
Mechanical wound	1.3%	1.0%^a	1.1%^a	1.0%
Infectious wound	5.6%	4.3%^a	4.2%^a	5.9%
Urinary	1.7%	1.6%^a	1.5%^a	2.8%^a
Pulmonary	7.7%	6.5%^a	6.2%^a	10.8%^a
Gastrointestinal	16.4%	13.2%^a	13.2%^a	13.8%^a
Cardiac	5.1%	5.1%	5.0%	6.4%^a
Intraoperative complication	3.4%	2.7%^a	2.7%^a	3.1%

^aStatistically significant