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Table 2 Detailed descriptive statistics by type of surgery

From: Sociodemographic characteristics of patients and their use of post-bariatric contouring surgery in the US

Variable

Panniculectomy

Abdominoplasty

Mastopexy

Other types of contouring surgeries

None

Female, No. (%)

2116 (86.63)

2074 (89.11)

Males are less than 10

1364 (90.29)

49,149 (81.71)

Age, mean (SD), years

47.84 (11.63)

45.78 (10.96)

45.76 (10.87)

47.92 (11.32)

51.73 (12.12)

Expected payer, No. (%)

 Medicare

598 (24.48)

266 (11.45)

48 (6.22)

137 (9.05)

15,354 (25.53)

 Medicaid

448 (18.33)

390 (16.77)

57 (7.43)

189 (12.53)

6508 (10.82)

 Private

1107 (45.32)

955 (41.04)

206 (26.66)

451 (29.84)

35,075 (58.31)

 Self-pay

200 (8.18)

631 (27.13)

428 (55.39)

653 (43.25)

875 (1.45)

 Other

90 (3.68)

84 (3.61)

33 (4.3)

81 (5.33)

2336 (3.88)

Income, No. (%)

 Highest income quartile

451 (18.47)

558 (23.98)

247 (31.98)

423 (28.03)

13,221 (21.98)

 Second highest income quartile

668 (27.33)

622 (26.73)

217 (28.13)

427 (28.30)

16,706 (27.77)

 Second lowest income quartile

683 (27.94)

547 (23.52)

172 (22.27)

355 (23.47)

16,477 (27.39)

 Lowest income quartile

642 (26.26)

600 (25.77)

136 (17.63)

305 (20.20)

13,744 (22.85)

Patient location, No. (%)

 Central counties of more than 1 million population

748 (30.62)

748 (32.13)

249 (32.28)

489 (32.38)

15,534 (25.83)

 Fringe counties of more than 1 million population

570 (23.34)

666 (28.62)

236 (30.55)

479 (31.73)

15,163 (25.21)

 Metropolitan of less than 1 million population

582 (23.81)

479 (20.59)

149 (19.25)

295 (19.55)

13,849 (23.03)

 Metropolitan of less than 250,000 population

188 (7.69)

176 (7.54)

63 (8.20)

97 (6.44)

5508 (9.16)

 Micropolitan

204 (8.36)

156 (6.72)

43 (5.61)

72 (4.75)

6275 (10.43)

 Other

151 (6.18)

102 (4.39)

31 (4.12)

78 (5.14)

3820 (6.35)

Urban hospital, No. (%)

2335 (95.58)

2249 (96.62)

758 (98.06)

1473 (97.50)

54,713 (90.96)

Teaching hospital, No. (%)

1951 (79.85)

1772 (76.15)

597 (77.33)

1198 (79.32)

40,772 (67.79)

Hospital bed size capacity, No. (%)

 300+

1612 (66.00)

1406 (60.42)

464 (60.08)

944 (62.49)

31,701 (52.70)

 100 – 299

648 (26.52)

744 (31.97)

246 (31.79)

478 (31.63)

21,900 (36.41)

 < 100

183 (7.48)

177 (7.61)

63 (8.14)

89 (5.88)

6548 (10.89)

  1. Frequency of weighted variables are rounded