Risk Values of Weight and Body Mass Index for Chest Wall Thickness in Patients Requiring Needle Thoracostomy Decompression

Table 1

Participant characteristics.

	Women (N = 268)					Men (N = 382)					value
Variable	Min	Med	Mean	Max		Min	Med	Mean	Max
Age	24.00	57.00	56.38	79.00		21.00	54.00	53.15	79.00	—	0.01
Height	135.50	157.00	159.74	176.90		145.00	169.00	168.93	191.90		0.01
Weight	26.40	57.15	58.25	96.60		38.50	69.00	70.09	133.80	—	0.01
BMI	12.56	23.17	23.70	41.43		13.81	24.24	24.48	42.81		0.01
ICS	Min	Med	Mean	Max	5 cm (%)	Min	Med	Mean	Max	5 cm (%)	value
2nd ICS	0.61	4.15	4.49	9.55	33.21%	0.94	4.59	4.73	9.99	40.58%	0.03
3rd ICS	0.54	3.22	3.29	7.22	7.84%	0.63	3.06	3.09	6.66	2.62%
4th ICS	0.58	3.08	3.10	5.94	3.36%	0.75	2.54	2.55	5.55	0.79%	0.01
5th ICS	0.74	3.02	2.99	5.38	0.37%	0.76	2.16	2.20	4.78	0%	0.01

N: sample size; Min: minimum; Med: median; Max: maximum; BMI: body weight index; value: difference between women and men; nonsignificant.