Table 1 Patient demographic and clinical characteristics.

From: Prognostic value of sarcopenia in patients with unresectable colorectal liver metastases after drug-eluting beads transcatheter arterial chemoembolization: a single center retrospective study

Characteristic

Sarcopenia (n = 34)

(No, %; Mean ± SD)

Non-sarcopenia (n = 37)

(No, %; Mean ± SD)

p value

Gender

0.973

 Male

21 (61.8%)

23 (62.2%)

 

 Female

13 (38.2%)

14 (37.8%)

 

Age (years)

55.5 ± 9.73

56.7 ± 11.1

0.630

Height (m)

1.64 ± 0.08

1.65 ± 0.09

0.805

ECOG performance

0.377

 0

13 (38.2%)

18 (48.6%)

 

 1

21 (61.8%)

19 (51.4%)

 

Primary site

0.904

 Rectum

17(50.0%)

17(45.9%)

 

 Left colon

11(32.4%)

12(32.4%)

 

 Right colon

6(17.6%)

8(21.6%)

 

Synchronous metastases

0.439

 Yes

15 (44.1%)

13 (35.1%)

 

 No

19 (55.9%)

24 (64.9%)

 

Location of liver metastases

0.590

 Bilobar

30 (88.2%)

31 (83.8%)

 

 Unilobar

4 (11.8%)

6 (16.2%)

 

Largest lesion (cm)

4.9 ± 3.3

4.1 ± 2.7

0.260

Extrahepatic metastases

0.600

 Yes

14 (41.2%)

13 (35.1%)

 

 No

20 (58.8%)

24 (64.9%)

 

NLR

5.5 ± 3.1

4.2 ± 2.7

0.059

SMA (cm2)

100.1 ± 12.6

125.7 ± 19.7

< 0.001

SMI (cm2/m2)

36.8 ± 3.0

45.9 ± 5.1

< 0.001

  1. SD, standard deviation; ECOG: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group; NLR: neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio; SMA: skeletal muscle area; SMI: skeletal muscle index.