. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 2.

Published in final edited form as: World J Surg. 2014 Aug;38(8):1984–1989. doi: 10.1007/s00268-014-2489-z

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics (n = 119)

Variable	Number (%)
Age	51.6 ± 3.8
Female	90 (75.6%)
BMI (kg/m²)	29.5 ± 2.6
Smoker	13 (10.9)
Pregnant	1 (0.8%)
Median # co-morbidities	2 ± 1
Cancer	25 (21.0%)
Hyperthyroidism	27 (22.7%)
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis	24 (20.2%)
Compressive symptoms	45 (37.8%)

Data are expressed as a mean ± standard error of the mean for continuous variables and the count with the percentage in parentheses for categorical variables. The categories cancer, hyperthyroidism, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis are not mutually exclusive.

BMI = body mass index