. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2016 Dec 28;13(12):2027–2031. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2016.12.025

Table 1.

Demographic Data

Variables	Local	Regional	P-Value
Patients	316	334
Age (Years)	41 ± 9	42 ± 10	0.11
Preoperative BMI^*	53.0 ± 10.1	53.2 ± 10.4	0.76
Sex (Female)	257 (81.6%)	274 (82.0%)	0.88
Race (White)	256 (81.0%)	300 (90.1%)	0.001
Private Insurance	186 (58.9%)	211 (63.2%)	0.26

Body Mass Index