Table 1 Backgrounds of patients.

From: Relationship between presarcopenia and event occurrence in patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma

 

n = 153 (%)

Age: years, mean ± SD

73 ± 9.2

Male: n (%)

114 (75)

Etiology: virus/alcohol/NASH/others

100/19/33/1 (65/12/22/1)

Body mass index, mean ± SD

22 ± 3.4

Complicated with diabetes: n (%)

44 (29)

Maximum size of HCC nodule in the liver: mm, median (range in IQR)

35 (18–68)

Number of HCC nodules: 1/2/3/4 or more, n (%)

84/25/14/31 (54/16/9/21)

Presence of ascites: n (%)

30 (20)

Presence of hepatic encephalopathy: n (%)

8 (5.2)

Child-Pugh grade: A/B/C: n (%)

93/46/14 (62/29/9)

HCC stage: 1/2/3/4, n (%)

26/62/32/33 (17/41/21/21)

JIS score: 0/1/2/3/4/5, n (%)

15/56/34/25/17/6 (10/37/22/16/11/5)

Albumin: g/dl, mean ± SD

3.6 ± 0.62

Total bilirubin: g/dl, mean ± SD

1.7 ± 2.8

γ-GTP: U/l, mean ± SD

142 ± 194

Prothrombin time: %, mean ± SD

82 ± 20

AFP: ng/ml, median (range in IQR)

33 (6.2–177)

AFP L3 index: %, median (range in IQR)

7.8 (2.1–44)

PIVKA-α: mAU/ml, median (range in IQR)

117 (23–3675)

Presence of presarcopenia: n (%)

43 (28)

  1. Continuous values are expressed as mean ± standard deviation. NASH; nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, BMI; body mass index, HCC; hepatocellular carcinoma, ALT; alanine aminotransferase, AFP; alpha-fetoprotein, AFP L3 fraction; Lens culinaris agglutinin-reactive fraction of AFP, PIVKA-II; prothrombin induced by vitamin K absence II.