Research Article
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 |
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: value < 0.05 is statistically significant.
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