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Table 1 Democratic data

From: The elevated admission white blood cell count relates to adverse surgical outcome of acute Stanford type a aortic dissection

Variables

Group I

Group II

P value

n = 149

n = 182

Gender Male (%)

111 (74.5)

151 (83.0)

0.059

Age (years)

 Mean ± SD

50.2 ± 9.5

46.7 ± 9.2

0.019

 Median (IQR)

50.0 (43.0–57.0)

47.0 (41.0–51.0)

 

Diabetes mellitus (%)

13 (8.7)

16 (8.8)

0.983

Hypertension (%)

110 (73.8)

139 (76.4)

0.593

Body mass index

 Mean ± SD

23.9 ± 3.9

25.7 ± 3.6

< 0.001

 Median (IQR)

23.9 (21.0–25.7)

25.5 (23.2–27.8)

 

Triglyceride (mmol/L)

 Mean ± SD

1.1 ± 0.7

1.2 ± 0.7

0.030

 Median (IQR)

1.0 (0.7–1.4)

1.1 (0.8–1.4)

 

WBCc (×109/L)

 Mean ± SD

8.3 ± 1.9

14.5 ± 3.2

< 0.001

 Median (IQR)

8.4 (6.9–9.9)

13.8 (12.1–16.0)

 

Hypoxemia (%)

67 (45.0)

108 (59.3)

0.009

Acute respiratory dysfunction (%)

6 (4.0)

12 (6.8)

0.278

Heart ischemia (%)

35 (23.5)

43 (23.6)

0.977

Acute hepatic injury (%)

0

10 (5.5)

0.003

Renal disfunction (%)

6 (4.0)

12 (6.6)

0.306

Emergency (%)

54 (36.2)

111 (61.0)

< 0.001

  1. IQR interquartile range, SD standard deviation, WBCc white blood cell count
  2. Group I: normal WBCc group, Group II: leukocytosis group
  3. Note: P-value< 0.05 is highlighted in bold type