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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2014 Nov 8;11(2):313–320. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2014.05.036

Table 3a.

Clinically Relevant Leak (CRL) by demographics

Characteristic N CRL p value
n %
Age (years) 0.46
 <30 431 2 0.5
 30–39 1126 8 0.7
 40–49 1302 15 1.2
 50–59 1179 13 1.1
 60+ 406 6 1.5
BMI (kg/m^2) 0.07
 <35 66 2 3.0
 35–<40 462 7 1.5
 40–<50 2346 16 0.7
 50–<60 1174 12 1.0
 60+ 396 7 1.8
Male 0.88
 No 3574 35 0.9
 Yes 870 9 1.0
White/Caucasian (41 missing) 0.61
 No 509 4 0.8
 Yes 3894 40 1.0
Hispanic (2 missing) 0.76
 No 4186 41 0.9
 Yes 256 3 1.2
Current or recent smoker (13 missing) 0.13
 No 3766 41 1.1
 Yes 665 3 0.5
Albumin (g/dl) (394 missing) 0.65
 low: <3 g/dl 24 0 0.0
 normal: 3–6 g/dl 4026 35 0.9