Impact of diabetes on recovery after radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer: A retrospective cohort study

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of patients before and after propensity score matching, n (%)

Characteristic	Before matching			After matching
	Diabetic (n = 300)	Non-diabetic (n = 900)	P value	Diabetic (n = 280)	Non-diabetic (n = 280)	P value
Age (years)	68.5 ± 9.2	63.7 ± 11.3	< 0.001	67.8 ± 9.5	67.3 ± 10.1	0.54
Male sex	190 (62.9)	536 (59.0)	0.22	172 (61.4)	169 (60.4)	0.80
BMI (kg/m²)	26.3 ± 4.1	24.8 ± 3.7	< 0.001	25.9 ± 3.9	25.7 ± 3.8	0.53
Hypertension	187 (61.9)	372 (41.0)	< 0.001	168 (60.0)	165 (58.9)	0.79
CVD	85 (28.1)	154 (17.0)	< 0.001	75 (26.8)	72 (25.7)	0.77
Tumor stage			0.18			0.95
I	70 (23.2)	236 (26.0)		66 (23.6)	68 (24.3)
II	93 (30.8)	300 (33.0)		89 (31.8)	87 (31.1)
III	139 (46.0)	372 (41.0)		125 (44.6)	125 (44.6)

BMI: Body mass index; CVD: Cardiovascular disease.