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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 4.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Surg. 2016 Jul 16;33(Pt A):8–12. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2016.07.011

Table 1. Characteristics of MetS and non-MetS patients.

Variable* MetS (n= 6) Non-MetS (n= 96) P-value**
n % n %
Age 64.1 (10.3) 58.7 (12.9) 0.3
Gender 0.8
 Male 4 67 69 72
 Female 2 33 27 28
Race <0.01
 African-American 4 67 15 16
 Caucasian 2 33 80 83
 Asian 0 0 1 1
T Stage >0.9
 T1 0 0 0 0
 T2 0 0 2 2
 T3 5 83 73 79
 T4 1 17 17 18
N Stage 0.7
 Unclear 0 0 2 2
 N0 2 33 48 52
 N1 4 67 38 41
 N2 0 0 4 4
Surgical Procedure >0.9
 APR 4 67 45 48
 LAR 2 33 38 41
 Coloanal 0 0 1 1
 Local excision 0 0 4 4
 Multivisceral resection 0 0 3 3
 Unresectable 0 0 2 2
*

Variable-specific frequencies may not total sample size due to missing data.

**

P-values for categorical variables based on Chi-square tests. P-values for continuous variables are based on t-tests.

Descriptive measures for age (years) are mean and standard deviation instead of n and %, respectively.