Table 1.

Demographic data.

	Mesh repair (n = 13)	Suture only (n = 41)	p-value	Total (n = 54)
Age in years	64 ± 11	58 ± 19	0.564	59 ± 17
Gender
-Male	4 (31%)	15 (37%)	0.488	19 (35%)
-Female	9 (69%)	26 (63%)		35 (65%)
BMI in kg/m2	32 ± 9	27 ± 4	0.023	28 ± 6
ASA classification
-1 and 2	8 (62%)	30 (73%)	0.143	38 (70%)
-3	5 (38%)	11 (27%)		16 (30%)
Diabetes	3 (23%)	3 (7%)	0.143	6 (11%)
Cardiac disease	10 (77%)	16 (39%)	0.026	26 (48%)
Pulmonal disease	0 (0%)	2 (5%)	0.573	2 (4%)
History of malignancy	0 (0%)	2 (5%)	0.573	2 (4%)

P-values < 0.05 are considered to be significant. These values are in bold.