Table 1.

Baseline characteristic group comparisons

		Frequent users (N = 195)	Infrequent users (N = 55)	Control (N = 211)	p-value
Age (mean ± SD)		45.1 ± 11.2	43.8 ± 10.2	45.6 ± 11.2	0.582
Females (%)		92.7%	87.3%	81.2%	< 0.001
Private insurance		67.0%	67.4%	63%	0.667
Procedure (%)	LRYGB	128 (65.6%)	35 (63.6%)	137 (64.9%)	0.281
	LSG	58 (29.7%)	13 (23.6%)	57 (27%)
	other	9 (4.6%)	7 (12.7%)	17 (8.1%)
Preoperative BMI		47.0 ± 8.1	45.6 ± 6.1	45.9 ± 7.6	0.262

LRYGB laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, LSG laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, SD standard deviation