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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Minim Invasive Gynecol. 2013 Sep 4;21(2):259–265. doi: 10.1016/j.jmig.2013.08.707

Table 4.

Complication rate, surgery duration, and hospitalization duration for hysterectomies analyzed by body mass index, stratified by malignancy and/or concomitant staging and for concomitant prolapse procedures (n=893)

BMI
Variable Total Normal <25 Overweight 25-<30 Obese 30+ P value OR (95% CI); p Obese vs. non-obese
Benign, no staging, no prolapse, total 535 210 (39.3) 183 (34.2) 142 (26.5)
Any complication 85 (15.9) 35 (16.7) 22 (12.0) 28 (19.7) 0.2 1.45 (0.88-2.39); p=0.2
Surgery duration >90th %a 14 (2.6) 6 (2.9) 5 (2.7) 3 (2.1) 0.9 0.76 (0.13-2.93)b; p=1.0
Hospital stay >90th %c 8 (1.5) 3 (1.4) 2 (1.1) 3 (2.1) 0.8 1.67 (0.26-8.73)b; p=0.4
Malignancy and/or Staging only, total 161 60 (37.3) 40 (24.8) 61 (37.9)
Any complication 45 (28.0) 14 (23.3) 10 (25.0) 21 (34.4) 0.4 1.66 (0.83-3.35); p=0.2
Surgery duration >90th %a 18 (11.2) 6 (10.0) 5 (12.5) 7(11.5) 0.9 1.05 (0.38-2.87); p=1.0
Hospital stay >90th %c 24 (14.9) 11 (18.3) 3 (7.5) 10 (16.4) 0.3 1.20 (0.50-2.91); p=0.8
Prolapse only, total 190 68 (35.8) 61 (32.1) 61 (32.1)
Any complication 30 (15.8) 8 (11.8) 7 (11.5) 15 (24.6) 0.09 2.48 (1.12-5.48); p=0.03
Surgery duration >90th %a 50 (26.5) 16 (23.5) 15 (24.6) 19 (31.7) 0.5 1.47 (0.74-2.88); p=0.3
Hospital stay >90th %c 2 (1.1) 0 0 2 (3.3) 0.2 ---d
a

Surgery duration >90th %ile = >213 minutes

b

Hospital stay >90th %ile = > 4 days

c

Exact 95% CI for odds ratio.

d

Unable to calculate finite value with confidence interval given zero count in a cell