Hysterectomy at a Canadian tertiary care facility: results of a one year retrospective review

BMC Women's Health

Table 3 Characteristics of patients with and without cancer.

Characteristic	Cancer	N	Mean	Std. Deviation	p-value*
BMI	No	285	28.0	6.1	.042
	Yes	72	30.7	10.7
Age in years	No	296	46.7	10.1	< .001
	Yes	76	55.9	13.9
Length of Surgery in minutes	No	293	98.9	41.1	< .001
	Yes	76	125.7	58.4
Length of Stay in days	No	296	4.3	3.4	.022
	Yes	76	6.2	7.0

* p-values are based on the two-sample t-test
BMI was missing for 4 patients with cancer and 11 patients without cancer; length of surgery in minutes was missing for 3 patients without cancer.

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