Table 1 Clinical, demographic, and injury characteristics
From: CT-derived sarcopenia should not preclude surgical stabilization of traumatic rib fractures
Nonsarcopenic | Sarcopenic | Total | p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gender | 0.025 | |||
Female | 57 (38.0%) | 21 (23.9%) | 78 (32.8%) | |
Male | 93 (62.0%) | 67 (76.1%) | 160 (67.2%) | |
Age (years) | 55.3 (16.0) | 69.1 (16.3) | 60.4 (17.4) | < 0.001 |
Body mass index (kg/m2) | 31.6 (5.7) | 27.5 (5.0) | 30.1 (5.8) | < 0.001 |
Hospital length of stay (days) | 12.9 (8.2) | 13.3 (7.2) | 13.0 (7.8) | 0.183 |
Intensive care unit length of stay (days) | 4.9 (5.7) | 5.9 (6.5) | 5.3 (6.0) | 0.146 |
Days of mechanical ventilation | 3.1 (4.3) | 2.8 (4.9) | 3.0 (4.5) | 0.304 |
Modified frailty index 5 | 0.9 (0.9) | 1.5 (1.1) | 1.1 (1.0) | < 0.001 |
Rib Score | 2.5 (1.8) | 2.2 (1.7) | 2.4 (1.8) | 0.279 |
Blunt Pulmonary Contusion-18 score | 1.8 (1.4) | 1.2 (1.3) | 1.6 (1.4) | < 0.001 |
Number of ribs fractured | 8.0 (4.0) | 7.8 (4.3) | 7.9 (4.1) | 0.697 |
Number of total fractures | 12.1 (7.0) | 11.4 (6.4) | 11.8 (6.8) | 0.427 |
Days to surgical stabilization of rib fractures | 4.4 (3.6) | 3.8 (1.9) | 4.2 (3.1) | 0.292 |
Flail chest | 0.158 | |||
No | 51 (34.0%) | 38 (43.2%) | 89 (37.4%) | |
Yes | 99 (66.0%) | 50 (56.8%) | 149 (62.6%) | |
Pneumothorax | 0.016 | |||
No | 45 (30.0%) | 40 (45.5%) | 85 (35.7%) | |
Yes | 105 (70%) | 48 (54.5%) | 153 (64.3%) | |
Hemothorax | 0.610 | |||
No | 87 (58.0%) | 54 (61.4%) | 141 (59.2%) | |
Yes | 63 (42.0%) | 34 (38.6%) | 97 (40.8%) | |
Smoking | 0.207 | |||
No | 114 (76.0%) | 73 (83.0%) | 187 (78.6%) | |
Yes | 36 (24.0%) | 15 (17.0%) | 51 (21.4%) | |
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 0.006 | |||
No | 140 (93.3%) | 72 (81.8%) | 212 (89.1%) | |
Yes | 10 (6.7%) | 16 (18.2%) | 26 (10.9%) | |
Tracheostomy placement | 0.623 | |||
No | 139 (92.7%) | 83 (94.3%) | 222 (93.3%) | |
Yes | 11 (7.3%) | 5 (5.7%) | 16 (6.7%) | |
Pneumonia | 0.743 | |||
No | 129 (86.0%) | 77 (87.5%) | 206 (86.6%) | |
Yes | 21 (14.0%) | 11 (12.5%) | 32 (13.4%) | |
Mechanism | < 0.001 | |||
Auto-involved | 82 (54.7%) | 22 (25.0%) | 104 (43.7%) | |
Fall | 43 (28.7%) | 47 (53.4%) | 90 (37.8%) | |
Miscellaneous | 25 (16.7%) | 19 (21.6%) | 44 (18.5%) |