Preoperative Nutritional Therapy Reduces the Risk of Anastomotic Leakage in Patients with Crohn’s Disease Requiring Resections

Table 6

Univariate analysis and multivariate analysis for predictive factors of anastomotic leakage.

Variables/categories	Anastomotic leakage		Univariate analysis value	Multivariate Analysis value
	Absent ()	Present ()
Age (years)			1
40	51	6
40	24	2
Indications for resection			0.130	0.382
Penetrating type	41	7
Other types	34	1
Serum albumin of the day before surgery			0.051	0.030
35 g/L	13	4
35 g/L	62	4
Serum CRP of the day before surgery			0.142	0.79
10 mg/L	49	2
10 mg/L	26	6
Preoperative corticosteroids			0.605
Yes	11	2
No	64	6
Preoperative azathioprine or TWP			1
Yes	33	3
No	42	5
Intraoperative abscess			0.129	0.131
Yes	11	3
No	64	5
Active smoker			1
Yes	25	3
No	50	5
Colonic disease			0.286
Yes	9	2
No	66	6
Preoperative drainage			0.675
Yes	54	7
No	21	1
Preoperative nutritional therapy			0.023	0.023
Yes	43	1
No	32	7

, number of surgeries; TWP, Tripterygium  wilfordii Hook. F.