Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in the Elderly: An Experience at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Western Nepal

Table 1

Preoperative data.

Variable	Elderly; ()	Young; ()	value
Age (years)	65 (60–80)	45 (21–59)
Sex			0.151
Male	29 (37.2)	46 (28)
Female	49 (62.8)	118 (72)
			0.091
I	62 (79.5)	117 (71.3)
II	13 (16.7)	45 (27.4)
III	3 (3.8)	2 (1.2)
IV	0 (0)	0 (0)
Comorbidity, %	28 (35.9)	27 (16.5)
Cardiovascular disease	5 (6.4)	5 (3.0)
Diabetes mellitus	9 (11.5)	13 (7.9)
Respiratory diseases	4 (5.1)	2 (1.2)
Renal disease	2 (2.4)	2 (1.2)
Hypertension	7 (9.0)	6 (3.7)
Neurological problems	1 (1.3)	1 (0.6)

Categorical variables are presented as (%). Continuous variables are presented as median (interquartile range). : American Society of Anesthesiology; value < 0.05.