Prevalence of Sarcopenia and Its Effect on Postoperative Complications in Patients with Crohn’s Disease

Table 3

Analysis of postoperative outcomes and complications in CD patients with or without sarcopenia.

	All patients ()	Sarcopenia ()	Nonsarcopenia ()	value
Length of hospital admission (overall)				0.003
Length of hospital admission (postoperation)				0.018
Parenteral nutrition	63 (50.8)	20 (58.8)	43 (47.8)	0.272
Complications	35 (28.2)	14 (41.2)	21 (23.3)	0.049
Skin or soft tissue infection	18 (14.5)	6 (17.6)	12 (13.3)
Major intra-abdominal leak	8 (6.5)	4 (11.8)	4 (4.4)
Postoperative sepsis	4 (3.2)	2 (5.9)	2 (2.2)
Postoperative thrombosis	2 (1.6)	1 (2.9)	1 (1.1)
Organ space infection	3 (2.4)	1 (2.9)	2 (2.2)
Hospital readmission within 30 days	12 (9.7)	4 (11.8)	8 (8.9)	0.629
Reoperation	2 (1.6)	2 (5.9)	0 (0.0)	0.074
ICU admission	3 (2.4)	1 (2.9)	2 (2.2)	0.621
Death	1 (0.8)	1 (2.9)	0 (0.0)	0.274

values < 0.05 were highlighted in italic.