Nutritional risk index as a predictor of postoperative wound complications after gastrectomy

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World J Gastroenterol. Feb 21, 2012; 18(7): 673-678
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Table 3 Relationship between patient characteristics and occurrence of wound complications

Characteristic		Wound complication			P value
		(-)	(+)	All
		(n = 603)	(n = 66)	(n = 669)
Gender, n (%)	Male	393 (65.2)	39 (59.1)	432	0.327¹
	Female	210 (34.8)	27 (40.9)	237
Age, mean ± SD		56.57 ± 11.2	58.62 ± 13.2	56.77 ± 11.44	0.164²
Disease progression, n (%)	EGC	346 (57.4)	33 (50)	379	0.251¹
	AGC	257 (42.6)	33 (50)	290
Type of operation, n (%)	B-I	404 (67)	40 (60.6)	444	0.253¹
	B-II	61 (10)	5 (7.6)	66
	TG	138 (23)	21 (31.8)	159
Comorbid diseases, n (%)	Hypertension	142 (23.5)	17 (25.8)	159	0.722¹
	Diabetes mellitus	73 (12.1)	20 (30.3)	93
	Pulmonary tuberculosis	26 (4.3)	7 (10.6)	33
	Cardiovascular diseases	16 (2.7)	0 (0)	16
	Hepatitis	40 (6.6)	5 (7.6)	45
	Others	17 (2.8)	2 (3)	19
	None	289 (48)	15 (22.7)	304
Postoperative hospital stay (d, mean ± SD)		12.24 ± 3.25	16.38 ± 6.104	12.64 ± 3.82	0.000²
NRI, n (%)	NRI < 97.5	504 (83.6)	62 (93.9)	566	0.027¹
	NRI ≥ 97.5	99 (16.4)	4 (6.1)	103

NRI: Nutrition risk index; EGC: Early gastric cancer; AGC: Advanced gastric cancer; B-I: Subtotal gastrectomy with Billroth–Ireconstruction; B-II: Subtotal gastrectomy with Billroth–II reconstruction; TG: Total gastrectomy.

¹Fisher’s exact test;

²Mann-Whitney U test.

Citation: Oh CA, Kim DH, Oh SJ, Choi MG, Noh JH, Sohn TS, Bae JM, Kim S. Nutritional risk index as a predictor of postoperative wound complications after gastrectomy. World J Gastroenterol 2012; 18(7): 673-678
URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v18/i7/673.htm
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