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. 2023 May 12;102(19):e33663. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000033663

Table 1.

Basic characteristics of included studies.

Author Year Country Sample size TNM stage Treatment Cutoff of SMI Endpoint NOS
Choi[25] 2015 Korea 484 Advanced Non-surgery Male: <42.2 cm2/m2, female: <33.9 cm2/m2 OS 7
Park[26] 2016 Korea 88 Advanced Non-surgery Male: <49.18 cm2/m2, female: <31.09 cm2/m2 OS 7
Ninomiya[27] 2017 Japan 112 I–IV Surgery Male: <43.75 cm2/m2, female: <38.5 cm2/m2 OS 7
Okumura[28] 2017 Japan 301 I-II Surgery Male: <47.1 cm2/m2, female: <36.6 cm2/m2 OS, PFS 6
Bian[29] 2018 China 203 III-IV Non-surgery Male: <42.0 2c m2/m2, female: <36.55 cm2/m2 OS 6
EI Amrani[30] 2018 France 107 NR Surgery Male: <52.4 cm2/m2, female: <38.5 cm2/m2 OS 7
Sugimoto[31] 2018 USA 323 NR Surgery Male: <55.4 cm2/m2, female: < 38.9 cm2/m2 OS, PFS 6
Basile[32] 2019 Italy 162 Advanced Non-surgery Male: <53/43 cm2/m2, female: <41 cm2/m2 OS 6
Gruber[33] 2019 Austria 133 I-IV Surgery Male: <52.4 cm2/m2, female: <38.5 cm2/m2 OS 8
Kurita[34] 2019 Japan 82 Advanced Non-surgery Male: <45.3 cm2/m2, female: <37.1 cm2/m2 OS 8
Lee[35] 2019 Korea 57 Advanced Non-surgery NR OS, PFS 6
Naumann[36] 2019 Germany 147 I–IV Mixed Male: <52.4 cm2/m2, female: <38.5 cm2/m2 OS 7
Wu[37] 2019 China 146 I–IV Mixed Male: <36.2 cm2/m2, female: <29.6 cm2/m2 OS 6
Cho[38] 2021 Korea 299 Advanced Mixed Male:< 36.2 cm2/m2, female: <29.6 cm2/m2 OS, PFS 8
Hsu[39] 2021 USA 136 I-IV NR Male: <43.75 cm2/m2, female: <38.5 cm2/m2 OS 8
Kim[40] 2021 South Korea 330 Advanced Non-surgery Male: <53/43 cm2/m2, female: <41 cm2/m2 OS 7
Nakano[41] 2021 Japan 55 Advanced Non-surgery Male: <42.2 cm2/m2, female: <33.9 cm2/m2 OS 7
Peng[42] 2021 China 116 I-IV Surgery Male: <42.2 cm2/m2, female: <33.9 cm2/m2 OS, PFS 8
Uemura[43] 2021 Japan 69 Advanced Non-surgery Male: <42 cm2/m2, female: <38 cm2/m2 OS 8
Aziz[44] 2022 Netherlands 415 NR Surgery Male: <54.3/52.3 cm2/m2, female: <46.6/38.6 cm2/m2 PFS 6

NOS = Newcastle-Ottawa Scale, NR = not reported, OS = overall survival, PFS = progression-free survival, SMI = skeletal muscle index, TNM = tumor-node-metastasis.