Lung Function before and Two Days after Open-Heart Surgery

Figure 2

(a) Mean VC, 95% CI, postoperatively in percent of predictive values for patients in different age groups (𝑛=107; 37–60 years, 𝑛=20; 61–70 years, 𝑛=46; 71–80 years, 𝑛=35; 81–86 years, 𝑛=6);  𝑃=0.04 between all groups. (b) Mean IC, 95% CI, postoperatively in percent of predictive values for different genders and BMI. (𝑛=107, female 𝑛=21, male 𝑛=86, BMI ≤ 25 𝑛=42, BMI > 25 𝑛=65).

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