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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Jun 18;161(6):1903–1917.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.03.175

TABLE 1.

Patient characteristics of ever-smokers and never-smokers before and after matching (N = 1548)

Before matching After matching


Characteristic Never-smokers (n = 172) Ever-smokers (n = 1376) Standardized difference, % Never-smokers (n = 169) Ever-smokers (n = 165) Standardized difference, %




n* No. (%) or 15th/50th/85th percentiles n* No. (%) or 15th/50th/85th percentiles n* No. (%) or 15th/50th/85th percentiles n* No. (%) or 15th/50th/85th percentiles

Demographics
 Age, y 172 53/68/78 1376 56/68/77 −7.9 169 53/69/78 165 53/68/79 −2.6
 Female sex 172 109 (63) 1376 623 (45) 37 169 106 (63) 165 103 (63) 0.09
 Body surface area, m2 172 1.6/1.9/2.2 1376 1.7/1.9/2.2 −28 169 1.6/1.9/2.2 165 1.6/1.9/2.2 −1.4
 Body mass index, kg/m2 172 22/26/32 1372 22/27/33 −15 169 22/26/32 165 22/26/32 0.73
Race
  Black 169 10 (5.9) 1323 134(10) −16 166 9.7 (5.9) 160 18(11) −19
  White 169 142 (84) 1323 1169 (88) −13 166 140 (85) 160 139(87) −6.7
  Other 172 10 (5.8) 1376 2(0.15) 34 169 8.5 (5.1) 165 1.0 (0.63) 27
Smoking
  Pack-years 172 1376 169 165
  ≤10 172 (100) 100 (7.3) 169 (100) 22(13)
  11–20 0(0) 157 (11) 0(0) 29 (17)
  21–40 0(0) 437 (32) 0(0) 58 (35)
  41–60 0(0) 346 (25) 0(0) 31 (19)
  ≥61 0(0) 336 (24) 0(0) 26(16)
Lung function
 FEV1, % of predicted 159 73/92/110 1291 63/81/101 54 156 74/93/108 157 73/93/111 −1.1
 Lung diffusion test, % of predicted 121 72/89/106 999 56/74/93 80 120 72/89/106 119 66/85/112 8.8
Comorbidities
 Hypertension 166 88 (53) 1346 836 (62) −18 163 87 (53) 160 87 (55) −2.2
 Steroids 166 8 (4.8) 1346 88 (6.5) −7.4 163 8 (4.9) 160 10 (6.3) −6.1
 Coronary artery disease 166 22 (13) 1346 318 (24) −27 163 22 (14) 160 22(14) 0.06
 Peripheral arterial disease 166 9 (5.4) 1346 144(11) −19 163 8.7 (5.4) 160 9.1 (5.7) −1.4
 Prior cardiothoracic surgery 166 28 (17) 1345 223 (17) 0.77 163 28 (17) 160 27 (17) −0.46
 Preoperative chemotherapy 166 29 (17) 1346 164 (12) 15 163 28 (17) 160 26 (16) 2.5
 Preoperative radiation 166 26 (16) 1346 172(13) 8.3 163 26 (16) 160 26 (16) −0.82
 Pharmacologically treated diabetes 172 21 (12) 1376 252(18) −17 168 21 (13) 165 21(13) −1.6

FEV1, Forced expiratory volume in 1 second.

*

Patients with data available.