Table 2.

Patient and Surgical Characteristics ^a

	SB Group (n = 17)	SR Group (n = 14)	P Value
Age at surgery, y	55.1 ± 10.3	53.6 ± 11.1	.58
Body mass index	22.2 ± 2.4	21.9 ± 3.2	.34
Sex, male/female	5/12	6/8	.68
Smoking	2	1	>.99
Fatty degeneration of supraspinatus, Goutallier grades 0/1/2	4/10/3	4/8/2	.94
Level of exercise, b high vs medium and low	0/17	0/14	>.99
Surgery on dominant side, right/left	10/7	9/5	>.99
Retraction, Patte stages 1/2/3	12/5/0	11/3/0	>.99
Previous treatment, medication/physical therapy/subacromial injection	9/4/0	7/4/0	.90
Symptom duration before surgery, mo	3.8 ± 2.4	4.1 ± 2.9	.74
Tear size in anteroposterior dimension, cm	3.7 ± 1.9	3.2 ± 1.6	.45
Healing pattern at last follow-up, Sugaya types 1/2/3/4/5	4/5/7/0/1	2/7/4/1/0	.47

^a Data are presented as No. or mean ± SD. SB, suture-bridge; SR, single-row.

^b Graded according to Chen et al. ⁴