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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 9.
Published in final edited form as: Anesth Analg. 2010 Apr 30;110(6):1541–1547. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181da938e

Table 1.

Baseline Demographic and Perioperative Characteristics of 879 Patients With and Without Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) After CABG Surgery With CPB

AKI (n = 75) No AKI (n = 804) P
Demographic data
  Age at surgerya (y) 65 ± 12 65 ± 10 1.00
  Female gender (%) 29 19 0.02
  Caucasian (%) 69 70 0.84
  Institution A (%) 32 28 0.57
  Body mass indexa (kg/m2) 31.3 ± 6.6 29.4 ± 5.7 0.01
Preoperative data
  Current smoker, (%) 9 13 0.42
  Past smoker (%) 63 69 0.24
  Diabetes mellitus (type I or II), (%) 44 33 0.06
  Hypertension (%) 84 76 0.15
  Hypercholesterolemia (%) 64 75 0.05
  Stroke (%) 8 5 0.52
  Left ventricular ejection fractionb (%) 53 (40–60) 55 (5–60) 0.33
  Hematocrit (%)a 38.4 ± 5.2 40.0 ± 4.9 0.01
  Serum creatinineb (mg/dL) 1.1 (1.0–1.3) 1.1 (0.9–1.3) 0.34
  Plasma NGALb (ng/mL) 75.8 (60–110.5) 69.5 (54.8–94.0) 0.08
Preoperative medicationsc
  Aspirin (%) 69 75 0.26
  HMG CoA reductase inhibitors (%) 69 76 0.22
  β-blockers (%) 77 78 0.94
  ACE inhibitors (%) 51 48 0.70
  Calcium channel blockers (%) 20 14 0.13
  Nonaspirin platelet inhibitors (%) 19 24 0.31
Intraoperative data
  Blood product transfusiond (%) 70 59 0.08
  Cardiopulmonary bypass timeb (min) 113 (82–138) 97 (67–121) <0.01
  Cross-clamp timeb (min) 80 (55–104) 71 (46–91) 0.06
  Epinephrine infusion (%) 41 26 0.02

CABG = coronary artery bypass graft; CPB = cardiopulmonary bypass; ACE = angiotensin-converting enzyme; ns = not significant; NGAL = neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin.

a

Normally distributed continuous data are expressed as mean ± SD.

b

Nonnormally distributed continuous data are expressed as median (interquartile range).

c

History of any use at any time before surgery.

d

Packed red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma, and/or platelets given intraoperatively up until postoperative day 2.