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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 23.
Published in final edited form as: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2019 Jan;143(1):22e–31e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000005096

Table 3:

subject demographics and complication analysis

Unilateral Bilateral Obesity
msTRAM DIEP P value msfTRAM msfTRAM/DIEP DIEP P value Obese Non-obese P value
N 15 9 20 3 4 15 36
Age 54.8 (8.3) 53.8 (8.1) 0.9 51.7 (7.9) 47.9 (9) 44.9 (4) 0.3 52.5 (8.9) 52.2 (7.9) 0.9
Years from Reconstruction 8.2 (1.5) 8.6 (1.01) 0.5 8.0 (1.3) 7.8 (1.7) 7.7 (1.2) 0.9 8.1 (1.1) 8.1 (1.5) 0.9
Miles from center 25.8 (24.3) 16.7 (9.6) 0.4 27.1 (15.9) 45.3 (75.1) 45.2 (14.2) 0.1 25.8 (25) 27 (4.7) 0.9
BMI 27.8 (5.3) 28.8 (6.03) 0.7 27.9 (6.0) 26.8 (5.5) 25.5 (3.2) 0.6 32.3 (5.3) 25 (4.9) <0.001
Obesity 5 (33.3) 4 (44.4) 0.7 5 (25) 1 (25) 0 (0) 0.6 15 (100) 0 (0) <0.001
Any Smoking History 7 (46.7) 5 (55.6) 1 12 (60) 2 (50) 1 (33.3) 0.7 11 (73.3) 17 (45.9) 0.1
Comorbidity Sum ≥2 6 (40) 3 (33.3) 1 6 (30) 2 (50) 0 (0) 0.4 12 (80) 5 (13.5) <0.001
Hernia Complication 1 (6.7) 0 (0) 1 1 (5) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0.8 0 (0) 2 (5.4) 1
Minor Surgical Complication 8 (53.3) 3 (33.3) 0.4 9 (45) 3 (75) 2 (66.7) 0.5 10 (66.7) 15 (40.5) 0.1
Major Surgical Complication 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 1 (5) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0.8 0 (0) 1 (2.7) 1