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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Sarcopenia and myosteatosis diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal cancer: creatinine to cystatin C ratio as evaluation marker

Characteristic

Overall (955)

Training cohort (671)

Validation cohort (284)

p-value

Basic information

 Age (year)

63.07 (10.89)

62.89 (10.98)

63.50 (10.71)

0.424

 Sex (n)

   

0.881

  Male

630 (66%)

444 (66%)

186 (65%)

 

  Female

325 (34%)

227 (34%)

98 (35%)

 

 Weight(kg)

62.93 (10.72)

62.53 (10.84)

63.88 (10.39)

0.071

 Height(m)

1.65 (0.08)

1.65 (0.08)

1.65 (0.08)

0.883

 BMI(kg/m2)

23.00 (3.20)

22.84 (3.22)

23.37 (3.12)

0.018

 BSA

1.69 (0.17)

1.69 (0.17)

1.71 (0.17)

0.125

 Location(n)

   

0.724

  Colorectum

483 (51%)

342 (51%)

141 (50%)

 

  Stomach

472 (49%)

329 (49%)

143 (50%)

 

 Ratio of body weight loss

0.02 (0.05)

0.02 (0.05)

0.02 (0.05)

0.933

 CCR(umol/mg)

77.79 (13.23)

77.91 (13.12)

77.52 (13.51)

0.688

 Cre(umol/L)

75.66 (14.98)

75.58 (14.96)

75.85 (15.05)

0.797

 CysC(mg/L)

0.98 (0.17)

0.98 (0.16)

0.99 (0.17)

0.387

 TNF(ng/ml)

17.04 (23.12)

16.73 (21.93)

17.78 (25.74)

0.549

 CRP(mg/L)

6.24 (15.87)

5.97 (15.12)

6.88 (17.53)

0.448

 BUN(mmol/L)

5.24 (1.52)

5.26 (1.48)

5.18 (1.62)

0.490

 GLU(mmol/L)

5.58 (1.47)

5.57 (1.48)

5.59 (1.45)

0.905

 ALB(g/L)

41.08 (4.27)

41.13 (4.30)

40.95 (4.20)

0.558

 NEUT(× 109/L)

3.39 (1.61)

3.36 (1.66)

3.47 (1.48)

0.331

 LYMPH(× 109/L)

1.66 (0.57)

1.67 (0.56)

1.64 (0.57)

0.347

 HGB(× 1012/L)

122.64 (23.49)

122.71 (23.18)

122.47 (24.26)

0.888

 WBC(× 109/L)

5.72 (1.93)

5.69 (1.98)

5.78 (1.82)

0.516

 PLT(× 109/L)

234.38 (80.98)

234.14 (79.79)

234.94 (83.88)

0.892

Imaging indices

    

 SMI(cm2/m2)

46.49 (7.70)

46.35 (7.50)

46.80 (8.14)

0.423

 IMAT%

6.84 (5.54)

6.54 (3.96)

0.08 (0.08)

0.047

 IMAT(cm2)

7.98 (4.51)

7.84 (4.31)

8.33 (4.93)

0.146

 SMD (HU)

32.94 (6.30)

33.16 (6.17)

32.42 (6.60)

0.109

 SMA(cm2)

127.68 (26.41)

127.31 (26.04)

128.55 (27.29)

0.517

 SMG(AU)

1548.76 (446.56)

1552.87 (434.00)

1539.04 (475.57)

0.674

Clinical outcomes

 Cachexia(n)

   

0.531

  No

771 (81%)

538 (80%)

233 (82%)

 

  Yes

184 (19%)

133 (20%)

51 (18%)

 

 Sarcopenia(n)

   

0.627

  No

710 (74%)

502 (75%)

208 (73%)

 

  Yes

245 (26%)

169 (25%)

76 (27%)

 

 Myosteatosis(n)

   

0.080

  No

596 (62%)

431 (64%)

165 (58%)

 

  Yes

359 (38%)

240 (36%)

119 (42%)

 

 Death(n)

   

0.507

  No

663 (95%)

476 (95%)

187 (94%)

 

  Yes

36 (5%)

24 (5%)

12 (6%)

 

  Missing

256

171

85

 

 Progression(n)

   

0.878

  No

615 (89%)

435 (90%)

180 (90%)

 

  Yes

73 (11%)

51 (10%)

22 (10%)

 

  Missing

267

185

82

 

 OS(day)

   

0.565

 

1110.37 (298.77)

1114.47 (299.79)

1100.09 (296.72)

 

  Missing

256

171

85

 

 PFS(day)

   

0.772

 

1085.58 (308.08)

1087.74 (308.12)

1080.22 (308.71)

 

  Missing

267

181

86