Table 2.

Characteristics of study cohort.

Item	Nasal clip	Merocel®	No treatment	Other Treatment	Silver Nitrate	Vaseline	Total
N	17	81	52	21	152	30	353
Mean age (SD), years	72.3 (16.5)	71.4 (14.8)	69.2 (17.2)	69.3 (17.2)	70.3 (19.4)	63.9 (21.4)	69.9 (18.5)
Sex, %
Male	58.8	51.9	42.3	57.7	51.3	63.3	51.0
Female	41.2	48.1	57.7	42.3	48.7	36.7	49.0
Type of visit, %
Initial	94.1	90.1	100.0	90.5	88.2	80.0	90.1
Recurrent	5.9	9.9	0.0	9.6	11.8	20.0	9.9
Side
Right	29.4	37.0	21.2	47.6	48.0	43.3	40.3
Left	35.3	44.4	34.6	28.6	41.5	40.0	39.9
Bilateral	23.5	17.2	11.5	19.1	9.2	16.7	13.3
Unknown	NA	NA	32.7	NA	NA	NA	6.5
Presence of medical illness, %
Have at least 1 condition	82.3	83.9	63.5	66.7	64.5	73.3	70.5
No medical illness	17.7	16.1	36.5	33.3	35.5	26.7	29.5
Concurrent anticoagulant/antiplatelet medications, %
Have at least 1 concomitant medication	82.4	71.6	51.9	47.6	58.3	64.5	61.5
No medication	17.6	28.4	48.1	52.4	41.7	35.5	38.5

Note: NA, not available: statistics with cell sizes < 5 were not reported.