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. 2018 Mar 1;11:1141–1148. doi: 10.2147/OTT.S156792

Table 1.

Correlation between two types of anesthesia and clinicopathological features in gastric cancer patients

Variables Overall patients
Matched patients
TIVA INHA P-value TIVA INHA P-value


(n=1,506) (n=1,350) (n=897) (n=897)
Age (years) 0.174 1.000
 <60 868 (57.6%) 744 (55.1%) 516 (57.5%) 516 (57.5%)
 ≥60 638 (42.4%) 606 (44.9%) 381 (42.5%) 381 (42.5%)
BMI (kg/m2) 0.099 0.708
 <20 359 (23.8%) 358 (26.5%) 235 (26.2%) 242 (27.0%)
 ≥20 1,147 (76.2%) 992 (73.5%) 662 (73.8%) 655 (73.0%)
Duration of surgery (hours) 0.593 0.962
 <3.5 825 (54.8%) 753 (55.8%) 505 (56.3%) 504 (56.2%)
 ≥3.5 681 (45.2%) 597 (44.2%) 392 (43.7%) 393 (43.8%)
Gender 0.083 0.951
 Female 1,193 (79.2%) 1,033 (76.5%) 738 (82.3%) 737 (82.2%)
 Male 313 (20.8%) 317 (23.5%) 159 (17.7%) 160 (17.8%)
Smoking 0.131 0.925
 No 726 (48.2%) 689 (51.0%) 442 (49.3%) 440 (49.1%)
 Yes 780 (51.8%) 661 (49.0%) 455 (50.7%) 457 (50.9%)
Alcoholism 0.474 0.925
 No 810 (53.8%) 708 (52.4%) 463 (51.6%) 465 (51.8%)
 Yes 696 (46.2%) 642 (47.6%) 434 (48.4%) 432 (48.2%)
Hypertension 0.063 0.785
 No 1,360 (90.3%) 1,190 (88.1%) 830 (92.5%) 833 (92.9%)
 Yes 146 (9.7%) 160 (11.9%) 67 (7.5%) 64 (7.1%)
Ischemic cardiomyopathy 0.969 0.515
 No 1,414 (93.9%) 1,268 (93.9%) 864 (96.3%) 869 (96.9%)
 Yes 92 (6.1%) 82 (6.1%) 33 (3.7%) 28 (3.1%)
Diabetes 0.174 0.790
 No 1,438 (95.5%) 1,274 (94.4%) 869 (96.9%) 867 (96.7%)
 Yes 68 (4.5%) 76 (5.6%) 28 (3.1%) 30 (3.3%)
ASA 0.566 0.963
 I 204 (13.5%) 199 (14.7%) 91 (10.1%) 89 (9.9%)
 II 1,197 (79.5%) 1,065 (78.9%) 770 (85.8%) 770 (85.8%)
 III 105 (7.0%) 86 (6.4%) 36 (4.0%) 38 (4.2%)
Cancer stage 0.860 0.849
 Lower (I–II) 844 (56.0%) 761 (56.4%) 499 (55.6%) 503 (56.1%)
 Higher (III) 662 (44.0%) 589 (43.6%) 398 (44.4%) 394 (43.9%)
Tumor differentiation 0.632 0.919
 Lower (1) 563 (37.4%) 493 (36.5%) 283 (31.5%) 281 (31.3%)
 Higher (2–4) 943 (62.6%) 857 (63.5%) 614 (68.5%) 616 (68.7%)

Notes: Detected by Pearson’s χ2 tests. Degrees of differentiation: degree 1, poorly differentiated; degree 2, moderately differentiated; degree 3, well differentiated; degree 4, other/unknown differentiated. Cancer stages: stage I: T1, N0, M0/T2, N0, M0/T1, N1, M0; stage II: T3, N0, M0/T4a, N1, M0/T3, N1, M0/T2, N2, M0/T1, N3, M0; stage III: T2, N3, M0/T3, N2, M0/T3, N3, M0/T4a, N2, M0/T4a, N3, M0/any T4b, any N, M0; stage IV: any T, any N, M1.

Abbreviations: ASA, American Society of Anesthesiologists; BMI, body mass index; INHA, inhalational anesthesia; TIVA, total intravenous anesthesia.