Table 2.

Preoperative pain by VAS scale (0–100) in 110 patients who filled in the VAS scale. Values are median (range).

		Preoperative pain at rest		Preoperative pain in motion
	n	VAS	p-value	VAS	p-value
All materials	110	39 (1–97)		81 (4–99)
Glucose metabolism			0.01		0.09
Normal	50	46 (1–97)		81 (18–99)
IFG/IGT	30	29 (1–80)		85 (5–98)
Diabetesa	30	24 (1–96)		79 (4–98)
BMI			0.3		0.05
< 30	60	45 (1–97)		82 (4–98)
30–34.9	33	29 (1–84)		75 (46–99)
≥ 35	17	25 (1–85)		83 (47–97)
Metabolic syndrome			0.6		1.0
No	41	37 (1–97)		81 (5–98)
Yes	69	42 (1–97)		79 (4–99)

For abbreviations, see Table 1.

^a Includes both previously and newly diagnosed cases of diabetes.