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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Arthroplasty. 2012 May 2;27(9):1696–1700. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2012.03.005

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of study subjects

Group 1a (n=39)
Mean ± SD (min, max)
Group 2a (n=25)
Mean ± SD (min, max)
Group 3a (n=61)
Mean ± SD (min, max)
Group 1
vs. Group
2b
Group 1
vs. Group
3b
Group 2
vs. Group
3b
Age (years) 55.5 ± 6.5 (41, 71) 59.3 ± 7.5 (43, 71) 59.0 ± 8.4 (46, 79) 0.042 0.021 0.87
BMI (kg/m2) 43.1 ± 6.3 (32.4, 58) 37.9 ± 7.5 (23.9, 58.8) 38.5 ± 9.8 (24.2, 90.5) 0.007 0.005 0.78
Weight (kg) 121.5 ± 19.3 (86, 155) 104.1 ± 19.3 (69, 131) 101.4 ± 22.6 (62, 165) 0.001 <0.001 0.57
Height (cm) 167.8 ± 10.4 (151, 197) 166.0 ± 8.5 (144, 177) 162.7 ± 8.5 (135, 184) 0.45 0.012 0.11
Sex (F/M) c 28/11 22/3 49/12 n/a n/a n/a
a

Group 1 underwent TKA prior to bariatric surgery for weight loss; Group 2 underwent TKA less than or equal to 2 years after bariatric surgery; Group 3 underwent TKA greater than 2 years after bariatric surgery

b

Significance by overall analysis of variance (ANOVA) was as follows: age (p=0.055), BMI (p=0.015), weight (p<0.001) and height (p=0.021); in the table we show the comparisons of each group to each other using two-sample t-test, assuming unequal variances.

c

There was no significant difference in gender distribution by group, p=0.28 (Chi-square) SD, standard deviation; n/a, not applicable; F/M, female/male