Preoperative Anaemia and Associated Postoperative Outcomes in Noncardiac Surgery Patients in Central Region of Ghana
Table 2
Patient baseline characteristics.
Parameters
Total (N = 893)
Preoperative anaemia (n = 485)
No preoperative anaemia (n = 408)
value
Comorbidities
0.028
Hypertension
68 (7.6%)
40 (8.2%)
28 (6.8%)
—
Diabetes mellitus
28 (3.1%)
22 (4.5%)
6 (1.5%)
—
Diabetes mellitus + hypertension
27 (3.0%)
22 (4.5%)
5 (1.2%)
—
HIV
9 (1.0%)
5 (1.0%)
4 (1.0%)
—
Asthma
6 (0.7%)
3 (0.6%)
3 (0.7%)
—
Hepatitis B
5 (0.6%)
3 (0.6%)
2 (0.5%)
—
Diabetes mellitus + other conditions
4 (0.4%)
2 (0.4%)
2 (0.5%)
—
Others‡
5 (0.6%)
3 (0.6%)
2 (0.5%)
—
Cancer
50 (5.6%)
31 (6.4%)
19 (4.7%)
0.261
Sickling status (N = 497)
0.101
Positive
52 (10.5%)
33/262 (12.6%)
19/235 (8.1%)
—
Negative
445 (89.5%)
229/262 (87.4%)
216/235 (91.9%)
—
Preoperative malaria parasites (N = 600)
0.456
Positive
16 (2.7%)
10/320 (3.1%)
6/280 (2.1%)
—
Negative
584 (97.3%)
310/320 (96.9%)
274/280 (97.9%)
—
Results are shown as frequency (percentage); diabetes mellitus with or without hypertension + (peptic ulcer disease or asthma or pneumonia); ‡alcoholic liver disease, chronic kidney disease, and chronic skin ulcer; sickling and preoperative malaria results were available for 497 and 600 patients, respectively.
