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Table 1 Clinicopathological characteristics of CRC patients with severe complications or not

From: Early decrease in postoperative serum albumin predicts severe complications in patients with colorectal cancer after curative laparoscopic surgery

Parameters

Postoperative severe complications

p value

No (n = 155)

Yes (n = 38)

Age (year)

52.5 ± 11.7

57.2 ± 12.1

0.029*

Gender, n (%)

 Male

92 (59.4)

24 (63.2)

 

 Female

63 (40.6)

14 (36.8)

0.67

BMI (kg/m2)

20.9 ± 1.3

20.6 ± 1.5

0.218

Comorbidities, n (%)

 Hypertension

28 (18.1)

13 (34.2)

0.029*

 Diabetes mellitus

18 (11.6)

6 (15.8)

0.48

Smoking status, n (%)

 Current smoker

17 (11.0)

7 (18.4)

 

 History of smoking

14 (9.0)

5 (13.2)

 

 Never

124(80.0)

26(68.4)

0.30

ASA class, n (%)

 II

121 (78.1)

28 (73.7)

 

 III

34 (21.9)

10 (26.3)

0.56

Previous abdominal surgery, n (%)

38 (24.5)

16 (42.1)

0.030*

Tumor location, n (%)

 Colon

90 (58.1)

20 (52.6)

 

 Rectum

65 (41.9)

18 (47.4)

0.54

AJCC stage, n (%)

 I–II

88 (56.8)

18 (47.4)

 

 III

67 (43.2)

20 (52.6)

0.30

Duration of operation (min)

203.4 ± 30.1

215.4 ± 41.2

0.043*

Estimated blood loss (mL)

180 (60–710)

240 (80–850)

0.032*

Intraoperative fluid utilization (mL)

1800 (1300–3100)

1900 (1400–2900)

0.28

Number of lymph nodes resection

10.7 ± 5.2

10.9 ± 5.8

0.836

Perioperative blood transfusion, n (%)

34 (21.9)

15 (39.5)

0.026*

Time to first flatus (d)

3.0 ± 0.6

3.1 ± 0.9

0.410

  1. CRC colorectal cancer, BMI body mass index, ASA American Society of Anesthesiologists, AJCC American Joint Committee on Cancer. p values were calculated by chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, Mann–Whitney U, or t test. *p value < 0.05