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. 2019 Jan 8;14:9. doi: 10.1186/s13018-018-1051-3

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of all TSA patients and comparisons between diabetic groups from 2015 to 2016

Baseline characteristics Non-DM (n = 5944) NIDDM (n = 922) IDDM (n = 380)
 Percentage of patients 82 12.7 5.2
 Average age 68.8 70.1 68.5
 Female gender % 56.4 53.6 54.5
 Average BMI 30.5 33.7 35.8
 Smoking % 11.3 10.2 9.5
 Steroid/immunosuppresant use % 5.1 5 3.4
 ASA ≥ 3% 50.1 77.3 89.5
 ASA 2.5 2.8 3
 Operation time (minutes) 108.52 109.58 110.61
Comparisons between diabetic groups
Baseline characteristics DM vs non-DM Non-DM vs NIDDM Non-DM vs IDDM NIDDM vs IDDM
P values
 Average age 0.003 0.001 0.771 0.016
 Female gender % 0.089 0.105 0.457 0.769
 Average BMI < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001
 Smoking % 0.185 0.341 0.285 0.693
 Steroid/immunosuppresant use % 0.396 0.89 0.149 0.219
 ASA ≥ 3% < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001
 ASA < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001
 Operation time (min) 0.303 0.766 0.632 0.92

DM diabetes mellitus, NIDDM non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, BMI body mass index, ASA American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification system. P values ≤ 0.05 are in italics