Multicentre Covariate Adjustment Analysis of Short-Term and 5-Year Outcomes after Endovascular Repair according to Sex

Table 1

Patient demographics.

Characteristic	Females (n = 57)	Males (n = 352)	value
Age, years	76.8 ± 9.5	73.5 ± 9.8	0.017
BMI > 30	9 (15.8%)	94 (26.7%)	0.066
Ethnicity			0.243
Caucasian	52 (92.8%)	347 (98.6%)
Asian	—	4 (1.1%)
African	—	—
Maori	—	—
ATSI	4 (7.1%)	—
Others	—	1 (0.3%)
Comorbidities
Smoking
Current	24 (42.11%)	146 (41.5%)	0.929
Former	13 (22.8%)	143 (40.9%)	0.005
Hypertension	41 (71.9%)	269 (76.6%)	0.447
Hyperlipidaemia	28 (50%)	177 (52.4%)	0.743
Diabetes	12 (21.0%)	84 (23.9%)	0.639
Cardiac	34 (59.6%)	177 (50.3%)	0.188
Angina	10 (17.5%)	60 (17.0%)	0.926
Arrhythmia	8 (14.0%)	62 (17.6)	0.496
CABG	2 (3.5%)	40 (11.2%)	0.042
CAS	3 (5.3%)	24 (6.8%)	0.652
CHF	2 (3.5%)	27 (7.7%)	0.215
MI	7 (12.5%)	53 (15.2%)	0.592
Renal	5 (8.8%)	57 (16.2%)	0.124
Carotid
CVA	7 (12.3%)	35 (10.0%)	0.598
TIA	5 (8.8%)	28 (7.9%)	0.835
PVD	13 (22.8%)	94 (26.7%)	0.529
COPD	14 (24.6%)	98 (27.8%)	0.603
History of malignancy	6 (10.5%)	85 (24.1%)	0.014
ASA classification			0.445
Class I	1	3
Class II	12	75
Class III	38	209
Class IV	6	64
Stent type			0.764
1 Endurant	22 (38.6%)	159 (45.4%)
2 Cook Zenith	3 (5.3%)	28 (8%)
3 Gore Excluder	9 (15.8%)	56 (16%)
4 Nellix®/AFX	3 (5.3%)	17 (4.9%)
5 Talent	7 (12.3%)	33 (9.4%)
6 Complex EVAR	13 (22.8%)	57 (16.3%)
Hospital
Public			0.116

Note. BMI: body mass index; ATSI: Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander; CABG: coronary artery bypass grafting; CAS: coronary artery stenting; CHF: chronic heart failure; MI: myocardial infarction; CVA: cerebrovascular accident; TIA: transient ischaemic attack; PVD: peripheral vascular disease; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ASA: American Society of Anesthesiologists classification; Nellix®: endovascular aneurysm sealing system.