Comparison of Long-Term Fertility and Bleeding Outcomes after Robotic-Assisted, Laparoscopic, and Abdominal Myomectomy

Table 2

Demographics by surgery type.

Factor	Total	Laparoscopic		Open		Robotic		value
			Statistics		Statistics		Statistics
Age at surgery	133	28	33.5 ± 4.4	80	34.1 ± 4.5	25	34 ± 3.8	0.77
Race/ethnicity	132							0.013
White/Caucasian	74	20	71.4	42	52.5	12	50
African American	43	4	14.3	33	41.2	6	25
American Indian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Asian Indian	4	1	3.6	2	2.5	1	4.2
Latino/Hispanic	8	2	7.1	1	1.2	5	20.8
Other	3	1	3.6	2	2.5	0	0
BMI	133	28	25.2	80	28.2	25	29.1	0.20
Current marital status	131							0.33
Married	78	21	77.8	44	55.7	13	52
Single, never married	42	5	18.5	26	32.9	11	44
Separated	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Divorced	10	1	3.7	8	10.1	1	4
Widowed	1	0	0	1	1.3	0	0
Highest level of education completed	129							0.43
Less than junior high	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Junior high	1	1	3.7	0	0	0	0
Partial high school	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
High school graduate	8	3	11.1	5	6.3	0	0
Partial college	29	5	18.5	19	24.1	5	21.7
College graduate	47	8	29.6	31	39.2	8	34.8
Graduate degree	44	10	37	24	30.4	10	43.5
Parity	134	28	0	81	0	25	0	0.21
Years since surgery	133	28	7	80	11	25	4	<0.001

Mean ± SD. Percentage. Median .
Analysis of variance.
Pearson’s Chi-squared test.
Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test.