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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 8.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Colorectal Dis. 2016 Jun 29;31(9):1611–1617. doi: 10.1007/s00384-016-2620-8

Table 2.

Preoperative laboratory data regarding the nutritional and inflammatory status.

Total patients
n=472
No PIC
n=354 (75.0 %)
PIC
n=118 (25.0 %)
p-value
Nutritional status
 Albumin (g/l), mean +/− SD 36.4 +/− 4.4 36.8 +/− 4.3 35.1 +/− 4.2 <0.001
 Prealbumin (g/l), mean +/− SD 0.26 +/− 0.06 0.27 +/− 0.07 0.25 +/− 0.06 0.059
Inflammatory status
 Preoperative CRP, median 4 (3–12) 4 (3–11) 6 (3–16) 0.008
 Preoperative PCT, median 0.07 (0.05–0.10) 0.07 (0.05–0.90) 0.06 (0.05–0.11) 0.998