Table 1.
Baseline patient characteristics
| Normal Weight (n = 59) |
Overweight (n = 44) |
Obese (n = 58) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean Age at Exenteration (years) | 56.3 (24.8–85.9) | 51.8 (27.1–78.4) | 55.1 (30.4–74.0) | 0.259 |
| BMI | 21.3 (15.1–24.98) | 27.5 (25.0–29.7) | 36.4 (30.0–50.9) | |
| Race | 0.017 | |||
| White | 48 (81.4%) | 26 (59.1%) | 40 (69%) | |
| Black | 1 (1.7%) | 5 (11.4%) | 4 (6.9%) | |
| Asian | 3 (5.1%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | |
| Other | 7 (11.9%) | 13 (29.5%) | 14 (24.1%) | |
| Hispanic | 7 (11.9%) | 14 (31.8%) | 15 (25.9%) | 0.036 |
| Co-morbidities | ||||
| HTN | 9 (15.3%) | 10 (22.7%) | 21 (36.2%) | 0.031 |
| Diabetes | 3 (5.1%) | 4 (9.1%) | 10 (17.2%) | 0.096 |
| Asthma | 1 (1.7%) | 1 (2.3%) | 1 (1.17%) | >0.999 |
| Cardiac disease | 5 (8.5%) | 4 (9.1%) | 5 (8.6%) | >0.999 |
| Pulmonary disease* | 4 (6.8%) | 1 (2.3%) | 2 (3.5%) | 0.626 |
| Tobacco Use | 0.440 | |||
| Current | 10 (16.9%) | 12 (27.3%) | 8 (13.8%) | |
| Former | 11 (18.6%) | 8 (18.2%) | 15 (25.9%) | |
| Never | 38 (64.4%) | 24 (54.5%) | 35 (60.3%) | |
*
One missing record for obese category