Table 2 Clinical characterization of subject groups. FVC—forced vital capacity.

From: Body fat compartment determination by encoder–decoder convolutional neural network: application to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

 

ALS patients

controls

p

m/f

50/24

42/39

0.05

Age/years

60 ± 13

median 62

range (22–81)

60 ± 13 median 58

range (26–88)

0.19

BMI/kg/m2

26 ± 4

median 24

range (15–32)

24 ± 4

median 25

range (19–40)

0.01

ALS-FRS-R

37 ± 8

–

–

Slope (ALS-FRS-R)/year

− 10 ± 10

–

–

Disease duration/years

2.1 ± 1.6

–

–

Onset (spinal/bulbar)

50/14

–

–

FVC/%

65 ± 14

–

–

Age at onset/years

58 ± 12

–

–

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