Table 3. Association of preoperative features with SSI.
| Variables | Categories | Patients | p-value | |
| With SSI (n (%)) | Without SSI (n (%)) | |||
| Hemoglobin | Less than 11 mg/dL | 14 (19.7%) | 57 (80.3%) | 0.004 |
| More than 11 mg/dL | 26 (42.6%) | 35 (57.4%) | ||
| Albumin (g/dL) | Less than 3.5 | 14 (21.9%) | 50 (78.1%) | 0.041 |
| More than 3.5 | 26 (38.2%) | 42 (61.8%) | ||
| Blood glucose (mg/dL) | <80 | 12 (42.9%) | 16 (57.1%) | 0.011 |
| 80-200 | 22 (36.7%) | 38 (63.3%) | ||
| >200 | 6 (13.6%) | 38 (86.4%) | ||
| Type of urgency | Elective | 13 (21.3%) | 48 (78.7%) | 0.037 |
| Emergency | 27 (38%) | 44 (62%) | ||
| Approach | Laparoscopy | 14 (23.3%) | 46 (76.7%) | 0.112 |
| Open | 26 (36.1%) | 46 (63.9%) | ||
| Class of wound | Clean | 10 (35.7%) | 18 (64.3%) | 0.478 |
| Clean-contaminated | 10 (40%) | 15 (60%) | ||
| Contaminated | 6 (27.3%) | 16 (72.7%) | ||
| Dirty | 14 (24.6%) | 43 (75.4%) | ||
| ASA score | 1 | 8 (50%) | 8 (50%) | 0.002 |
| 2 | 15 (34.1%) | 29 (65.9%) | ||
| 3 | 15 (39.5%) | 23 (60.5%) | ||
| 4 | 2 (5.9%) | 32 (94.1%) | ||