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Table 3 Causes of all-cause death

From: Off-pump bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting in patients with left main coronary artery disease

 

Unweighted

Weighted

BITA

SITA

 

BITA

SITA

 

(n = 435)

(n = 169)

P value

(SoW = 599.72)

(SoW = 621.25)

P value

All-cause death

104 (23.9%)

66 (39.1%)

< 0.001

159.09 (26.5%)

216.86 (34.9%)

0.002

 Cardiac death

16 (3.7%)

15 (8.9%)

0.030

25.09 (4.2%)

46.12 (7.4%)

0.015

  Myocardial infarction

1 (0.2%)

8 (4.7%)

0.007

1.30 (0.2%)

15.49 (2.5%)

0.001

  Heart failure

12 (2.8%)

7 (4.1%)

0.383

19.87 (3.3%)

30.63 (4.9%)

0.155

  Lethal arrhythmia

3 (0.7%)

0 (0%)

0.083

3.92 (0.7%)

0 (0%)

0.048

 Noncardiac death

88 (20.2%)

51 (30.2%)

0.014

134.00 (22.3%)

170.74 (27.5%)

0.038

  Pneumonia

18 (4.1%)

15 (8.9%)

0.049

25.36 (4.2%)

36.98 (6.0%)

0.171

  Stroke

4 (0.9%)

3 (1.8%)

0.379

6.89 (1.1%)

9.20 (1.5%)

0.612

  Sepsis

5 (1.1%)

6 (3.6%)

0.115

8.20 (1.4%)

14.69 (2.4%)

0.198

  Cancer

18 (4.1%)

10 (5.9%)

0.351

25.74 (4.3%)

47.47 (7.6%)

0.013

  Others

43 (9.9%)

17 (10.1%)

0.949

67.81 (11.3%)

62.40 (10.0%)

0.473

  1. BITA: bilateral internal thoracic artery; SITA: single internal thoracic artery; SoW: sum of weights