Factors Associated with Perforated Appendicitis in Elderly Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Table 1

Comparison of patients’ characteristics in the perforated and nonperforated appendicitis groups.

	Perforated appendicitis ()	Nonperforated appendicitis ()	value
Age (mean ± SD) (years)	68.8 ± 7.4	69.2 ± 6.8	0.989
Male sex	49 (47.6)	29 (28.2)	0.004
Address			<0.001
Urban	74 (71.9)	36 (35.0)
Suburb	29 (28.1)	67 (65.0)
Living status			<0.001
With family	82 (86.3)	30 (29.1)
Living alone	13 (13.7)	63 (70.9)
Underlying disease			0.770
Diabetes mellitus	32 (31.1)	25 (24.3)	0.276
Hypertension	56 (54.4)	54 (52.4)	0.780
Myocardial infarction	10 (9.7)	11 (10.7)	0.818
Congestive heart failure	1 (1.0)	2 (1.9)	1.000
Chronic kidney disease	8 (7.8)	5 (4.9)	0.390
Chronic liver disease	0 (0)	2 (1.9)	0.498
COPD	3 (2.9)	3 (2.9)	1.000
ASA classification			0.218
I	11 (10.7)	8 (7.8)
II	76 (73.8)	86 (83.5)
III	16 (15.5)	9 (8.7)
BMI (mean ± SD) (Kg)	23.8 ± 4.2	23.9 ± 3.3	0.525

: value < 0.05 is statistically significant.