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Published in final edited form as: J Diabetes Complications. 2017 Nov 29;32(3):305–309. doi: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2017.11.010

Table 1.

Baseline patient characteristics stratified by post-operative glycemic control.

	Normoglycemia	Stress hyperglycemia		p-Value
	<140 mg/dL	140–180 mg/dL	>180 mg/dL	p-Value
# patients	1350	415	206
Age, years	56.2 ± 18.5	59.3 ± 17.2	59.0 ± 17.6	0.003
Male gender, n (%)	640 (47)	208 (50)	101 (49)	0.6
BMI, kg/m²	26.3 ± 6.9	27.1 ± 7.0	26.2 ± 7.5	0.14
Race, n (%)				<0.001
Caucasian	715 (53)	279 (67)	138 (67)
African-American	635 (47)	136 (33)	68 (33)
Charlson score	2.4 ± 2.0	2.4 ± 2.0	2.6 ± 1.9	0.12
Type of surgery, n (%)
General surgery	207 (62)	86 (26)	42 (12)
Orthopedics	89 (66)	30 (22)	15 (11)
Gastrointestinal	523 (83)	65 (10)	39 (6)
Neurosurgical	92 (44)	79 (38)	39 (18)
Thoracic	201 (66)	68 (22)	35 (12)
Other	238 (66)	87 (24)	36 (10)

Legend: BMI (body mass index).