Table 1.
Patient Characteristics by Degree of Malnutrition
| Degree of Malnutrition | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total N=516 | None N=349 | Mild N=97 | Moderate N=49 | Severe N=21 | p-value | |
| Age, median (IQR) | 15.5 (13.7–16.7) | 15.6 (13.9–16.7) | 15.4 (13.6–16.9) | 15.0 (13.6–16.6) | 15.7 (14.5–16.7) | 0.71 |
| Female n(%) | 218 (42.3) | 153 (43.8) | 32 (33) | 25 (51.0) | 8 (38.1) | 0.14 |
| Race n(%) | 0.02 | |||||
| White | 425 (82.4) | 281 (80.5) | 85 (87.6) | 44 (89.8) | 15 (71.4) | |
| Black | 55 (10.7) | 47 (13.5) | 5 (5.2) | 1 (2.0) | 2 (9.5) | |
| Other | 4 (0.8) | 4 (1.1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| Unknown | 32 (6.2) | 17 (4.9) | 7 (7.2) | 4 (8.2) | 4 (19.1) | |
| Hispanic n(%) | 22 (4.3) | 12 (3.5) | 6 (6.3) | 3 (6.4) | 1 (4.8) | 0.41 |
| ASA class n(%) | 0.19 | |||||
| <3 | 303 (58.7) | 212 (60.7) | 58 (59.8) | 24 (49.0) | 9 (42.9) | |
| ≥ 3 | 213 (41.3) | 137 (39.3) | 39 (40.2) | 25 (51.0) | 12 (57.1) | |
| Case type n(%) | 0.42 | |||||
| Elective | 453 (87.8) | 308 (88.3) | 85 (87.6) | 44 (89.8) | 16 (76.2) | |
| Urgent/Emergent | 63 (12.2) | 41 (11.8) | 12 (12.4) | 5 (10.2) | 5 (23.8) | |
| Operation type n(%) | 0.24 | |||||
| Ostomy takedown | 33 (6.4) | 28 (8.0) | 2 (2.1) | 2 (4.1) | 1 (4.8) | |
| Ostomy only | 35 (6.8) | 21 (6.0) | 6 (6.2) | 5 (10.2) | 3 (14.3) | |
| Small bowel only | 79 (15.3) | 51 (14.6) | 14 (14.4) | 10 (20.4) | 4 (19.1) | |
| Partial colectomy | 87 (16.9) | 53 (15.2) | 22 (22.7) | 8 (16.3) | 4 (19.1) | |
| Total abdominal colectomy | 44 (8.5) | 26 (7.5) | 14 (14.4) | 4 (8.2) | 0 (0) | |
| Proctectomy | 3 (0.6) | 2 (0.6) | 0 (0) | 1 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| Ileocecectomy | 235 (45.5) | 168 (48.1) | 39 (40.2) | 19 (38.8) | 9 (42.9) | |
| Comorbidity n(%) | ||||||
| Cardiac | 4 (0.8) | 3 (0.9) | 1 (1.0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1.00 |
| Respiratory | 24 (4.7) | 21 (6.0) | 2 (2.1) | 0 (0) | 1 (4.8) | 0.14 |
| Neurologic | 21 (4.1) | 14 (4.0) | 3 (3.1) | 3 (6.1) | 1 (4.8) | 0.70 |
| Renal | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1.00 |
| Immunosuppression n(%) | 197 (38.2) | 132 (37.8) | 34 (35.1) | 22 (44.9) | 9 (42.9) | 0.65 |
| Preoperative steroid use n(%) | 160 (31.0) | 104 (29.8) | 33 (34.0) | 13 (26.5) | 10 (47.6) | 0.29 |
| Preoperative PN n(%) | 109 (21.1) | 60 (17.2) | 27 (27.8) | 14 (28.6) | 8 (38.1) | 0.01 |
| Preoperative SIRS/sepsis n(%) | 29 (5.6) | 17 (4.9) | 6 (6.2) | 1 (2.0) | 5 (23.8) | 0.01 |
| Preoperative blood transfusion n(%) | 6 (1.2) | 2 (0.6) | 2 (2.1) | 0 (0) | 2 (9.5) | 0.02 |
| Preoperative Hypoalbuminemia* | 129 (41.1) | 75 (37.1) | 28 (45.2) | 13 (41.9) | 13 (68.4) | 0.06 |
IQR= interquartile range, ASA=American Society of Anesthesiologists, PN=parenteral nutrition, SIRS=systemic inflammatory response syndrome
*
For preoperative albumin, there are 200 missing values in the data, the total sample size for this row is 312