This association persisted in multivariate regression analysis adjusted for aortic clamping time, bypass time, gender, age and other predictors of glucose variability.
In patients with femoropopliteal bypasses female gender, critical ischaemia, poor run-off and non-venous graft material, the latter even in patients with supragenicular bypasses, were independent risk factors.
Other clinical variables collected and analyzed included duration of cardiopulmonary bypass (minutes), age, gender, and length of stay (ICU and hospital).
These differences remained significant (p = 0.012) using logistic regression adjusted for age, gender, duration of bypass and baseline organ function (ejection fraction, diabetes, renal dysfunction; Table 2).
To compare the information content of the two models, receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves were computed.Results : in all patients female gender, critical ischaemia, femorocrural bypass grafting and non-venous graft material were independent risk factors.
Traditional suture methods were used in 178 control patients, matched by age group, gender, use of cardiopulmonary bypass, and Hannan perioperative risk score.
These differences remained significant (p = 0.045) using logistic regression adjusted for age, gender and duration of bypass (Table 3).
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For example, Lim et al [ 14] used gender, previous MI, coronary artery bypass surgery, readmission to hospital, positive attitude to exercise and dietary habits, and perceived threat of further heart problems while Valenti and colleagues [ 15] used age, gender, previous MI, coronary artery bypass surgery, and readmission to hospital as the discriminating factors.
No additional information was gained by modelling for TNFα, resistin, catecholamine infusion rate, gender, BMI, operation time, heart/lung bypass time or medication, suggesting a minor relevance of these parameters for inflammatory insulin resistance in our model.
