Table 6 Patient baseline demographic, clinical and hernia sizes according to the type of fixation system.

From: Predictive factors of recurrence for laparoscopic repair of primary and incisional ventral hernias with single mesh from a multicenter study

  

Type of fixation system

P value

Not absorbable (n = 385)

Absorbable (n = 480)

Mixed (n = 153)

Sex

Male (n = 506)

202 (39.9)

234 (46.2)

70 (13.9)

0.316

Female (n = 512)

183 (35.8)

246 (48)

83 (16.2)

Age (years, median)

 

58.8

61.6

 

4.2067*

 

61.6

61.07

0.5935*

58.8

 

61.07

2.4451*

BMI (mean kg/m2)

 ≥ 30 (n = 363)

149 (41.04)

151 (41.6)

63 (17.3)

0.146

Clinical comorbidities

COPD

(n = 47)

10 (21.3)

28 (59.5)

9 (19.2)

0.056

Diabetes mellitus

(n = 119)

33 (27.7)

63 (52.9)

23 (19.4)

0.043

Hypertension

(n = 430)

153 (35.5)

213 (49.5)

64 (14.9)

0.374

Oral anticoagulant

(n = 44)

11 (25)

25 (56.8)

8 (18.2)

0.197

Steroid therapy

(n = 14)

5 (35.7)

7 (50)

2 (14.3)

0.976

Radiotherapy

(n = 11)

4 (36.3)

7 (63.7)

0

0.313

Current smoker

(n = 246)

126 (51.3)

83 (33.7)

37 (15)

 < 0.001

Chirrosis

(n = 7)

3 (42.8)

3 (42.8)

1 (14.4)

0.962

Hernia size defect

W1 (< 4 cm) (n = 506)

257 (50.8)

178 (35.1)

71 (14.1)

 < 0.001

W2 (≥ 4 to < 10 cm) (n = 384)

92 (24)

225 (58.6)

67 (17.4)

W3 (≥ 10 cm) (n = 128)

36 (28.1)

77 (60.1)

15 (11.8)

  1. Data presented were n (%), unless specified. BMI, body mass index; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  2. *Tukey–Kramer pairwise comparisons for variable fixation studentized range critical value (.05, 3, 1007) = 3.3194419.
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