Association between thoracic epidural anesthesia and driving pressure in adult patients undergoing elective major upper abdominal surgery: a randomized controlled trial

Table 3 Multiple linear regression model of the correlation between age, BMI, TEA application, sex, surgical method, preoperative cardiopulmonary comorbiditiesand minimum ΔP

Variables	B	P value	R²	Constant	VIF	Durbin-Watson
Age	0.077	0.000	0.565	5.356	1.905	1.539
BMI	0.081	0.257			1.154
TEA application	-1.289	0.008			1.049
Sex	-0.672	0.156			1.046
Surgical method	2.104	0.000			1.159
Preoperative comorbidities	0.173	0.781			1.864

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; TEA, thoracic epidural anesthesia; ΔP, driving pressure; B, unstandardized beta coefficient

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