Table 1. Comparison of Mean Pain Score, Mean Systolic Blood Pressure, Mean Diastolic Blood Pressure, Patients’ Mean Heart Rate^a.

Time (h)	Groups		P Value
	Case	Control
Pain
Immediately after surgery	6.2 ± 2.35	6.14 ± 2.65	0.71
2	5.03 ± 2.35	4.36 ± 2.32	0.19
6	3.3 ± 2.18	3.06 ± 1.98	0.47
12	2.3 ± 1.5	2.24 ± 1.57	0.71
24	1.26 ± 1.7	1.1 ± 1.39	0.91
Systolic blood pressure
Immediately after surgery	130.93 ± 18.16	123.5 ± 14.16	0.092
2	125.5 ± 18.16	116.48 ± 14.21	0.031
6	121.66 ± 15.88	116.2 ± 12.65	0.167
12	119.93 ± 16.38	115.17 ± 13.85	0.234
24	118.86 ± 20.19	108.4 ± 17.1	0.037
Diastolic blood pressure
Immediately after surgery	80.1 ± 12.45	77.79 ± 11.63	0.472
2	79.3 ± 10.96	70.2 ± 15.46	0.010
6	78.83 ± 9.97	72.68 ± 10.07	0.021
12	76.5 ± 8.82	72.06 ± 8.18	0.050
24	75 ± 10.66	69.31 ± 3.37	0.016
Heart rate
Immediately after surgery	82.15 ± 15.02	73.82 ± 10.9	0.011
2	83.42 ± 13.92	80.41 ± 10.64	0.324
6	79.9 ± 13.64	80.51 ± 8.48	0.769
12	78.93 ± 11.43	79.93 ± 9.2	0.714
24	76.06 ± 9.91	69.51 ± 23.37	0.164

^aValues are expressed as mean ± SD.