Quality of life after carotid endarterectomy

Table 4 Comparisons for patients with dependency in ADL 6 months after EC

	ADL Dependency
Variable	No (n = 15)	Yes (n = 28)	P
Age, median	67	70	0.365^b
Gender, n(%)			0.231^a
Female	2 (13)	8 (29)
Male	13 (87)	20 (71)
BMI, median	25.7	25.7	0.908^b
Duration of anesthesia (min.), median	150	180	0.057^a
T ype of anesthesia, n(%)			0.239^a
General	4 (27)	12 (43)
Local	11 (73)	16 (57)
High-risk patients, n (%)	2 (13)	6 (21)	0.417^a
Temperature at admission	35.6	36.0	0.474^b
Troponin I at admission	0.001	0.002	0.178^b
Hypertension, n(%)	14 (93)	27 (96)	0.581^a
Hyperlipidemia, n(%)	12 (80)	24 (86)	0.468^a
Ischemic heart disease, n(%)	7 (47)	21 (75)	0.065^a
Congestive heart disease	0	3 (11)	0.265^a
Cerebrovascular disease	5 (33)	14 (50)	0.235^a
Insulin therapy for diabetes	1 (7)	0	0.349^a
Preoperative serum creatinine > 2 mg/dl	0	1 (4)	0.651^a
RCRI score, median	1.0	1.5	0.017^b
SAPS II, median	15.0	17.0	0.239^b
APACHE II, median	7.0	7.0	0.301^b
Length of PACU stay (hours), median	19.0	20.0	0.768^b
Length of Hospital stay (days), median	5.0	5.0	0.326^b

^a Pearson χ². ^b Mann-Whitney test.
There were no significant differences after controlling for multiple comparisons
BMI, Body mass index; RCRI, Revised Cardiac Risk Index; SAPS II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score; APACHE II, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; PACU, Post Anesthesia Care Unit;