Comparison of modified gunsight suture technique and traditional interrupted suture in enterostomy closure

Table 1 General information

Group	Gunsight suture	Traditional suture	Statistical quantity	P value
Case number	135	135	-	-
Male (%)	86 (63.7)	92 (68.1)	χ2 = 0.59	0.440
Age in yr (IQR)	62 (52, 68)	60 (52, 68)	Z = -0.97	0.332
BMI (IQR)	23.83 (21.60, 25.95)	23.12 (20.94, 25.06)	Z = -1.377	0.169
DM (%)	17 (12.6)	23 (17.0)	χ2 = 1.06	0.300
Length of time between two surgeries, d (IQR)	132 (105, 184)	134 (109, 181)	Z = -0.489	0.625

BMI: Body mass index [a commonly used index to assess the relationship between weight and height, usually expressed in units of kilograms per square meter (kg/m²)]; DM: Diabetes mellitus (a chronic metabolic disease characterized by prolonged high blood sugar levels); IQR: Interquartile range [a statistical measure used to describe the spread of a dataset, it represents the span of the middle 50% of the data and is calculated as the difference between the first quartile (Q1) and the third quartile (Q3)].