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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2018 Aug 20;164(4):774–783. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2018.06.008

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of LABS-2 participants who underwent sleeve gastrectomy to matcheda participants who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.

Sleeve Gastrectomy
(N=57b)
Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
(N=57b)
p valuec

Age, years 0.90
 Median (25th,75th %-ile) 50.0 (36.0, 55.0) 48.0 (38.0, 57.0)
 Range 21.0–73.0 20.0–69.0
Body mass index, kg/m2 0.89
 Median (25th,75th %-ile) 57.7 (46.8, 63.1) 56.0 (47.2, 63.2)
 Range 35.5–75.2 35.7–76.8
Sex, n (%) 1.00
 Male 18 (31.6) 18 (31.6)
 Female 39 (68.4) 39 (68.4)
Race, n (%) (n=55) 0.92
 White 45 (81.8) 46 (80.7)
 Black 8 (14.5) 8 (14.0)
 Other 2 (3.6) 3 (5.3)
Ethnicity, n (%) 0.51
 Hispanic 6 (10.5) 4 (7.0)
 Non-Hispanic 51 (89.5) 53 (93.0)
Current/recent smoker, n (%) 0.43
 No 47 (82.5) 50 (87.7)
 Yes 10 (17.5) 7 (12.3)
Diabetes, n (%) (n=53) 0.89
 No 36 (67.9) 38 (66.7)
 Yes 17 (32.1) 19 (33.3)
High LDL, n (%) (n=52) (n=54) 0.57
 No 27 (51.9) 31 (57.4)
 Yes 25 (48.1) 23 (42.6)
High triglycerides, n (%) (n=53) (n=55) 0.18
 No 41 (77.4) 48 (87.3)
 Yes 12 (22.6) 7 (12.7)
Low HDL, n (%) (n=54) (n=56) 0.96
 No 34 (63.0) 35 (62.5)
 Yes 20 (37.0) 21 (37.5)
Hypertension, n (%) (n=54) 0.52
 No 10 (18.5) 8 (14.0)
 Yes 44 (81.5) 49 (86.0)
Location surgery preformed
Oregon Health & Science University 0 (0.0) 4 (7.0)
East Carolina Medical Center 1 (1.8) 13 (22.8)
Cornell University Medical Center 49 (86.0) 4 (7.0)
Neuropsychiatric Research Institute 1 (1.8) 6 (10.5)
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 1 (1.8) 9 (15.8)
University of Washington 1 (1.8) 7 (12.3)
Columbia University Medical Center 4 (7.0) 1 (1.8)
Virginia Mason Medical Center 0 (0.0) 8 (14.0)
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital 0 (0.0) 5 (8.8)

Abbreviations: HDL=High-density lipoprotein, LDL=Low-density lipoprotein.

a

Deno

minators differ because of missing data. Only n’s less than 57 are shown.

b

Wilcoxon’s test for continuous variables; Pearson’s chi-square test or exact tests, as appropriate, for categorical variables.