Sonographic muscle mass assessment in patients after cardiac surgery

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of patients enrolled in the study, n (%)

Characteristics	Values
Demographic data
Sex (male, female)	107 (65)/58 (35)
Age (yr)	71 (64-77)
Weight (kg)	77 ± 11.84
Height (m)	1.67 ± 0.09
Body mass index (kg/m2)	27.55 ± 3.69
Clinical characteristics
Hypertension	126 (76)
Diabetes	57 (34)
Dyslipidemia	97 (59)
Smoker	34 (21)
Former smoker	38 (23)
Coronary heart disease	89 (54)
Chronic heart Failure	10 (6)
Chronic pulmonary disease	22 (13)
Chronic kidney failure	13 (8)
Thoracic aortic aneurysm	11 (7)
Valve disease	10 (6)
Other disease	65 (39.4)
Apache II score	2 (1.2)
SOFA score	5 (3-6)

Categorical variables are continuous as median (Q1-Q3) or mean ± SD, ^aP < 0.05.