Table 1 Patient characteristics
Quilting suture (group 2) n=116 | Conventional suture (group 2) n=139 | Conventional suture (group 3) n=133 | p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age (years) | Mean (SD) | 52.7 (9.9) | 52.3 (9.3) | 51.6 (11.3) | 0.780 |
BMI (kg/m2) | Mean (SD) | 22.7 (2.9) | 23.6 (3.1) | 22.9 (3.3) | 0.197 |
Hypertension | n (%) | 20 (17.2) | 21 (15.1) | 19 (14.8) | 0.435 |
Diabetes | n (%) | 4 (3.4) | 5 (3.6) | 2 (1.5) | 0.520 |
Smoking | n (%) | 3 (2.6) | 2 (1.4) | 1 (0.8) | 0.500 |
Menopause | n (%) | 69 (59.5) | 77 (55.4) | 63 (47.4) | 0.145 |
Familial history of cancer | n (%) | 24 (20.7) | 20 (14.4) | 25 (18.8) | 0.395 |
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy | n (%) | 23 (19.8) | 30 (21.6) | 22 (16.5) | 0.567 |
Surgery | |||||
ME+SLN | n (%) | 18 (15.5) | 32 (23.0) | 36 (27.1) | 0.087 |
ME+ALND | n (%) | 98 (84.5) | 107 (77.0) | 97 (72.9) | |
TNM stage | |||||
I | n (%) | 37 (31.9) | 33 (23.7) | 43 (32.3) | 0.121 |
II | n (%) | 67 (57.8) | 90 (64.7) | 67 (50.4) | |
III | n (%) | 12 (10.3) | 16 (11.6) | 23 (17.3) | |