Table 2 Associations between dietary components and transplant-related risk factors and GvHD.

From: Dietary intake and risk of metabolic syndrome in long-term survivors of pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Parameter

Carbohydrate

Protein

Fat

Percent

P value

Percent

P value

Percent

P value

Treatment groups

Chemotherapy-based conditioning

45 (25–57)

0.2

17 (11–29)

0.02

34 (23–45)

0.9

TBI-based conditioning

46 (23–59)

 

15 (11–25)

 

33 (24–51)

 

Acute GvHD

No acute GvHD

44 (25–57)

0.3

18 (11–29)

0.03

33 (23–45)

0.7

Acute GvHD

46 (23–59)

 

16 (11–27)

 

34 (24–44)

 

Chronic GvHD

No chronic GvHD

45 (23–59)

0.1

16 (11–29)

0.2

34 (23–45)

0.4

Chronic GvHD

47 (28–57)

 

15 (11–27)

 

31 (24–51)

 

Diagnosis

Benign disease

44 (30–57)

0.06

18 (12–27)

0.02

34 (23–45)

0.6

Malignant disease

47 (23–59)

 

16 (11–29)

 

33 (24–51)

 

Donor match

HLA-identical sibling

46 (23–59)

0.6

16 (11–27)

0.8

34 (24–51)

0.6

Other donors

45 (25–57)

 

16 (13–29)

 

33 (23–37)

 
  1. TBI total body irradiation, GvHD graft versus host disease, HLA Human leukocyte antigen. Statistics: Mann-Whitney U test. Significant P values are in bold type. (Median; range).