Table 4.
Comparison between patients with and without sternal wound complications
| Variable | All (n = 1774) | Non-diabetes (n = 1316) | Diabetes (n = 458) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No SWC (n = 1559) | SWC (n = 215) | P | No SWC (n = 1183) | SWC (n = 133) | P | No SWC (n = 376) | SWC (n = 82) | P | |
| Age, years | 67.9 ± 9.62 | 67.1 ± 9.85 | 0.212 | 68.0 ± 9.81 | 68.2 ± 10.1 | 0.890 | 67.7 ± 9.03 | 65.4 ± 9.18 | 0.037 |
| Male gender | 1276 (81.9) | 157 (73.0) | 0.002 | 974 (82.3) | 101 (75.9) | 0.071 | 302 (80.3) | 56 (68.3) | 0.017 |
| BMI, kg/m2 | 26.7 ± 4.15 | 28.9 ± 5.03 | < 0.001 | 26.4 ± 3.93 | 28.0 ± 4.70 | < 0.001 | 27.4 ± 4.70 | 30.3 ± 5.24 | < 0.001 |
| BMI group | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||
| < 25 | 439 (29.8) | 47 (22.3) | 355 (31.8) | 35 (26.9) | 84 (23.5) | 12 (14.8) | |||
| 25–29 | 710 (48.2) | 79 (37.4) | 541 (48.5) | 52 (40.0) | 169 (47.2) | 27 (33.3) | |||
| 30–34 | 277 (18.8) | 54 (25.6) | 189 (17.0) | 31 (23.9) | 88 (24.6) | 23 (28.4) | |||
| > 34 | 47 (3.2) | 31 (14.7) | 30 (2.7) | 12 (9.2) | 17 (4.8) | 19 (23.5) | |||
| Urgent surgery | 756 (48.5) | 108 (50.2) | 0.632 | 562 (47.5) | 68/133 (51.13) | 0.428 | 194 (51.6) | 40 (48.8) | 0.644 |
| Oral corticosteroids | 123 (7.9) | 22 (10.2) | 0.240 | 88 (7.4) | 15/133 (11.28) | 0.118 | 35 (9.3) | 7 (8.5) | 0.826 |
| Transplantation | 12 (0.8) | 4 (1.9) | 0.113 | 7 (0.6) | 1 (0.8) | 0.822 | 5 (1.3) | 3 (3.7) | 0.145 |
| COPD | 95 (6.1) | 15 (7.0) | 0.615 | 67 (5.7) | 11 (8.3) | 0.227 | 28 (7.5) | 4 (4.9) | 0.408 |
| Skeletonisation | 346 (22.2) | 38 (17.7) | 0.131 | 244 (20.6) | 27 (20.3) | 0.930 | 102 (27.1) | 11 (13.4) | 0.009 |
| BIMA | 934 (59.9) | 162 (75.4) | < 0.001 | 741 (62.6) | 104 (78.2) | < 0.001 | 193 (51.3) | 58 (70.7) | 0.001 |
| HbA1c (%) | 6.60 ± 1.18 | 7.03 ± 1.42 | 0.007 | 5.80 ± 0.82a | 5.80 ± 0.47a | 0.757 | 6.85 ± 1.16a | 7.21 ± 1.43a | 0.081 |
| Glycemia (mg/dL) | 112.8 ± 30.5 | 116.6 ± 35.5 | 0.094 | 107.1 ± 24.6 | 106.1 ± 21.6 | 0.996 | 130.79 ± 39.1 | 133.8 ± 45.6 | 0.800 |
BMI Body mass index, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, BIMA bilateral internal mammary artery bypass grafting
adata from 129 non-diabetes patients
Values are presented as mean ± SD or n (%)
P < 0.05 was considered significant