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. 2019 Oct 22;57(4):740–746. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezz287

Table 4:

Unmatched comparison between patients with and without neoadjuvant treatment undergoing pneumonectomy

Variables Without neoadjuvant (5271 patients) With neoadjuvant (1316 patients) Standardized difference (%)
Age (years), mean (SD) 62.7 (9.5) 60.1 (8.5) 27
Female gender, n (%) 1226 (23) 295 (22) 2
BMI (kg/m2), mean (SD) 25.1 (3.9) 25.2 (3.9) 2
ppoFEV1%, mean (SD) 58.7 (19.9) 56.8 (19.6) 9
CAD, n (%) 385 (7.3) 80 (6.1) 4
CVD, n (%) 131 (2.5) 31 (2.4) 0.7
Diabetes, n (%) 159 (3.0) 30 (2.3) 4
PS >1, n (%) 487 (9.2) 121 (9.2) 0.1

BMI: body mass index; CAD: coronary artery disease; CVD: cerebrovascular disease; ppoFEV1: predicted postoperative forced expiratory volume in 1 s; PS: performance score.