Characteristics of the active population of French patients who had a sick leave prescription within 30 days of a vascular intervention for LEAD or varicose veins between 1 January 2013 and 30 June 2016
| Varicose n=83 448 | LEAD n=6192 | |||||
| Inpatient | Outpatient | P value* | Inpatient | Outpatient | P value* | |
| N (%) | 9463(11) | 73 985(89) | 5901 (95.30) | 291 (4.70) | ||
| Gender | ||||||
| Male | 3910 (41.32) | 28 844 (38.99) | 1.30−5 | 4960 (84.05) | 243 (83.51) | 0.8 |
| Female | 5553 (58.68) | 45 141 (61.01) | 941 (15.95) | 48 (16.49) | ||
| Age (mean±SD) | 47.9 (8.36) | 45.6 (9.32) | 53.45 (5.30) | 53.03 (4.90) | ||
| 18–39 | 1729 (18.27) | 19 777 (26.73) | 2.10−16 | 72 (1.22) | 3 (1.03) | 0.28 |
| 40–59 | 7178 (75.85) | 51 474 (69.57) | 5307 (89.93) | 270 (92.78) | ||
| 60–65 | 556 (5.88) | 2736 (3.70) | 522 (8.85) | 18 (6.19) | ||
| Comorbidity index† | 0.086 | 0.0317 | 1.32 | 0.04 | ||
| 0 | 8894 (93.99) | 72 348 (97.79) | 2.10−16 | 1266 (21.45) | 98 (33.68) | 2.10−16 |
| [12] | 552 (5.83) | 1527 (2.06) | 3805 (64.48) | 160 (54.98) | ||
| 3 | 24 (0.25) | 53 (0.07) | 474 (8.03) | 18 (6.19) | ||
| 4 | 7 (0.07) | 7 (0.01) | 184 (3.12) | 7 (2.41) | ||
| [5–12] | 16 (0.17) | 50 (0.07) | 172 (2.91) | 8 (2.75) | ||
*P values are results of univariate tests: Fisher’s exact test for qualitative variable and Student’s t-test for quantitative variables.
†As defined by Charlson’s Comorbidity algorithm.
LEAD, lower extremity arterial disease.