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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Thorac Surg. 2016 Jun 17;102(5):1482–1489. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.04.020

Table 4.

Patient Characteristics by NNE Biomarker Cohort status

Not in biomarker cohort In biomarker cohort

Percent/Mean ± SD Percent/Mean ± SD p-value
Age (mean, SD) 65.37 ± 10.56 65.18 ± 10.06 0.528

Female 24.66% 22.37% 0.053

BMI (mean, SD) 29.68 ± 5.90 29.72 ± 5.50 0.789

BSA (mean, SD) 2.03 ± 0.25 2.04 ± 0.24 0.206

Smoker 24.71% 23.23% 0.214

CHF 11.93% 9.46% 0005

Last pre-op serum creatinine (mean, SD) 1.10 ± 0.88 1.11 ± 0.90 0.678

Diabetes 35.54% 37.72% 0.107

Vascular disease 25.26% 27.12% 0.131

Unstable angina 55.45% 54.34% 0.290

COPD 12.28% 13.11% 0.374

Left main, ≥50% stenosis 34.94% 34.19% 0.593

Prior CABG 3.56% 2.08% 0.003

Priority
  Emergent 8.70% 1.93% <0.001
  Urgent 63.96% 67.42%
  Non-urgent 27.34% 30.66%

BMI=body mass index (kg/m2), BSA=body surface area (m2), CABG=coronary artery bypass graft, CHF=congestive heart failure, COPD=chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, MI=myocardial infarction, pRBC=packed red blood cell