Table 2.

Analysis of the increase in venous diameter in the control and intervention groups.

Group		n	Venous diameter (mm)	P-value	P-value between groups
Control
	Before surgery	39	2.65 ± 0.48	<0.001a	Ref
	Immediately after surgery	39	3.05 ± 0.75		0.081b
	1 week after surgery	39	3.96 ± 1.06		<0.001b
	2 weeks after surgery	39	4.26 ± 1.13		<0.001b
	6 weeks after surgery	39	5.60 ± 1.09		<0.001b
Intervention
	Before surgery	36	2.76 ± 0.63	<0.001a	Ref
	Immediately after surgery	36	3.73 ± 0.76		<0.001b
	1 week after surgery	36	4.72 ± 0.86		<0.001b
	2 weeks after surgery	36	5.34 ± 0.92		<0.001b
	6 weeks after surgery	36	6.61 ± 0.68		<0.001b

^aRepeated-measures ANOVA test.

^bBonferroni test.