Table 1.

Patient characteristics

	Period 1	Period 2	p value
Age, years
Control	42 (30–69)	45 (24–81)	0.16
Experimental	45 (26–82)	45.5 (23–79)	0.95
	p < 0.01	p = 0.85
Diabetes, %
Control	2	8	0.19
Experimental	4	9	0.35
	p = 0.78	p = 0.93
Hypertension, %
Control	7	19	0.04
Experimental	21	25	0.75
	p = 0.02	p = 0.43
>2 previous surgeries, %
Control	30	34	0.72
Experimental	22	26	0.74
	p = 0.29	p = 0.31
Uterine weight, g
Control	202 (52–956)	182 (19–1,339)	0.99
Experimental	205 (35–1,400)	183 (17–1,853)	0.57
	p = 0.18	p = 0.6

Continuous variables reported as medians (ranges).