Nursing interventions’ impact on cardiovascular complications after gastrointestinal surgery in intensive care unit: Risk factor analysis

Table 2 Clinical and pathological characteristics of patients from cardiovascular diseases and non-cardiovascular diseases group

Variables	Cardiovascular diseases, n = 19	Non-cardiovascular diseases, n = 59	P value
Age (mean ± SD, years)	78.3 ± 4.2	57.5 ± 3.9	< 0.001
Sex (%)			0.215
Male	12 (63.2)	38 (64.4)
Female	7 (36.8)	21 (35.6)
BMI (mean ± SD, kg/m2)	24.5 ± 3.0	21.9 ± 3.2	0.045
ASA score [n (%)]			0.253
I-II	9 (47.3)	26 (44.1)
III-IV	10 (52.6)	33 (55.9)
History of smoking [n (%)]	9 (47.3)	12 (20.3)	< 0.001
History of diabetes mellitus [n (%)]	13 (68.4)	24 (40.6)	< 0.001
History of hypertension [n (%)]	15 (78.9)	25 (42.4)	< 0.001
History of heart failure [n (%)]	7 (36.8)	6 (2.3)	0.043
History of myocardial infarction [n (%)]	5 (26.3)	5 (8.4)	0.008

BMI: Body mass index; ASA: American Society of Anesthesiologists.