. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 10.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2018 Nov 9;220(2):187.e1–187.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2018.11.121

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of study population.

Variables	Mesh Exposure (n=24)	Pain (n=18)	P value
Age, years ^a	52.92 ± 12.38	49.00 ± 11.88	0.31

Body mass index, (kg/m²) ^a	31.74 ± 5.90	28.22 ± 4.39	0.040

Parity ^b	2 (2, 3)	2 (2, 3)	0.30

Time implanted, months ^a	53.63 ± 37.70	48.39 ± 37.16	0.39

Menopausal status ^c			0.75
Premenopausal	8 (33)	7 (39)
Postmenopausal	16 (67)	11 (61)

Smoking ^c			0.58
Nonsmoker	8 (33)	9 (50)
Smoker	7 (29)	4 (22)
Former Smoker	9 (38)	5 (28)

Race/ethnicity ^c			--
White	24 (100)	18 (100)

Hormone usage ^c			0.53
Yes	10 (42)	10 (56)
No	14 (58)	8 (44)

^a.

values given as mean ± standard deviation; P-value from Student’s t-test

^b.

values given as median (25 percentile, 75 percentile); P-value from Mann-Whitney U test

^c.

values given as count of patient numbers (frequencies); P-value from Fisher’s exact test