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Table 1 Characteristics of study population

From: Risk scores for predicting dysphagia in critically ill patients after cardiac surgery

Variable

All

Non-DG

DG

P

N

395

292

103

 

Age, year

61.7 ± 12.8

61.2 ± 12.8

63.3 ± 12.8

0.198

Male, n (%)

258 (65.3%)

188 (64.4%)

70 (68.0%)

0.549

Height, cm

163.7 ± 7.3

163.4 ± 7.1

164.8 ± 7.6

0.201

Weight, kg

62.4 ± 11.1

62.2 ± 11.1

63.3 ± 11.2

0.441

BMI, kg/m2

23.4 ± 3.3

23.4 ± 3.3

23.4 ± 3.2

0.948

Hypertension, n (%)

190 (48.1%)

142 (48.6%)

48 (46.6%)

0.732

Diabetes, n (%)

99 (25.1%)

77 (26.4%)

22 (21.4%)

0.356

Previous stroke, n (%)

65 (16.5%)

28 (9.6%)

37 (35.9%)

< 0.001

Atrial fibrillation, n (%)

61 (15.4%)

41 (14.0%)

20 (19.4%)

0.206

CABG procedure, n (%)

91 (23.0%)

65 (22.3%)

26 (25.2%)

0.586

Echocardiography parameters

LVEF (%)

56.0 ± 12.1

56.0 ± 11.9

55.9 ± 12.5

0.693

LAD (mm)

42.9 ± 8.3

42.7 ± 8.6

43.5 ± 7.5

0.503

LVDD (mm)

51.6 ± 8.1

51.8 ± 8.4

51.2 ± 7.2

0.192

Endotracheal intubation, hours

21 (0–25)

19 (0–24)

24 (15–38)

< 0.001

Gastric intubation, hours

0 (0–22)

0 (0–19)

24 (0–91)

< 0.001

Sedative drug use duration, hours

6 (0–13)

6 (0–10)

9 (6–17)

0.004

  1. Note: CABG: coronary artery bypass grafting; DG: dysphagia; LVD: left atrial diameter; LVDD: left ventricular end-diastolic diameter; LVEF: left ventricular ejection fraction;