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Table 4 Associations between risk factors and occurrence of postoperative complications calculated with chi-square for linear trend

From: The effects of pre-existing dementia on surgical outcomes in emergent and nonemergent general surgical procedures: assessing differences in surgical risk with dementia

 

Dementia group (N, 120)

Non-dementia group (N, 120)

 

Occurrence of complication

Occurrence of complication

 

Yes

No

p value

Yes

No

p value

 

n = 100

n = 20

 

n = 89

n = 31

 

Risk factor

 Age ≥ 75 years

81 (81)

11 (55)

.012

47 (52.8)

15 (48.4)

.67

 Congestive herart disease

41 (41)

5 (25)

.179

29 (32.6)

3 (9.7)

.013

 Cardiac arrhythmia

53 (53)

5 (25)

.022

33 (37.1)

6 (19.4)

.070

 Diabetes

40 (40)

7 (35)

.676

41 (46.1)

6 (19.4)

.009

 Kidney disease

37 (37)

7 (35)

.865

26 (29.2)

3 (9.7)

.029

 ASA classification > 2

82 (91.2)

16 (84.2)

.364

76 (87.4)

17 (56.7)

<.001

 Emergent operation

56 (56)

5 (25)

.011

48 (53.9)

9 (29)

.017

  1. Numbers in bracket show values presented in n (%) unless noted otherwise