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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nutrition. 2022 Dec 10;107:111934. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2022.111934

Table 3.

Association between LMM and risk of mortality in subgroups of cancer survivors and matched cohort

Cancer survivors (N=946)
Matched cohort (N=1,857)
No. death/Total (%) aHR (95% CI) p-interaction No. death/Total (%) aHR (95% CI) p-interaction
All-cause mortality
Age (years)
<65 71/539 (13.2) 2.28 (1.27, 4.10) 0.17 77/1,078 (7.1) 1.19 (0.60, 2.33) 0.31
≥65 250/407 (61.4) 1.79 (1.36, 2.37) 418/779 (53.7) 1.70 (1.35, 2.15)
Sex
Female 142/540 (26.3) 1.20 (0.79, 1.81) 0.06 193/1,062 (18.2) 1.20 (0.82, 1.73) 0.63
Male 179/406 (44.1) 1.89 (1.35, 2.64) 302/795 (38.0) 1.32 (1.00, 1.75)
RFM *
Low and moderate 156/434 (35.9) 2.19 (1.54, 3.12) 0.02 212/835 (25.4) 1.18 (0.88, 1.59) 0.08
High 165/512 (32.2) 1.02 (0.66, 1.56) 283/1,022 (27.7) 1.38 (1.00, 1.91)
Energy intake (kcal/day)
<1790.3 197/473 (41.7) 1.47 (1.08, 2.01) 0.41 291/953 (30.5) 1.22 (0.91, 1.64) 0.61
≥1790.3 124/473 (26.2) 1.46 (0.94, 2.26) 204/904 (22.6) 1.28 (0.91, 1.80)
Comorbidity burden
0 90/417 (21.6) 1.34 (0.81, 2.24) 0.55 167/963 (17.3) 1.27 (0.87, 1.85) 0.65
1-7 231/529 (43.7) 1.64 (1.21, 2.22) 328/894 (36.7) 1.35 (1.03, 1.79)
Survival time (year)
1-6 149/441 (33.8) 1.28 (0.86, 1.90) 0.52 N/A N/A N/A
≥7 172/505 (34.1) 1.63 (1.16, 2.29) N/A N/A
CVD-specific mortality
Age (years)
<65 7/539 (1.3) 1.13 (0.10, 12.99) 0.52 17/1,078 (1.6) 1.62 (0.33, 7.92) 0.89
≥65 51/407 (12.5) 2.71 (1.46, 5.04) 105/779 (13.5) 1.74 (1.10, 2.75)
Sex
Female 21/540 (3.9) 4.17 (1.40, 12.42) 0.50 43/1,062 (4.1) 1.23 (0.56, 2.67) 0.42
Male 37/406 (9.1) 1.35 (0.63, 2.90) 79/795 (9.9) 1.41 (0.82, 2.42)
RFM *
Low and moderate 22/434 (5.1) 1.93 (0.72, 5.19) 0.80 47/835 (5.6) 1.42 (0.75, 2.67) 1.00
High 36/512 (7.0) 2.25 (1.02, 4.97) 75/1,022 (7.3) 1.25 (0.66, 2.35)
Energy intake (kcal/day)
<1790.3 31/473 (6.6) 1.68 (0.76, 3.73) 0.73 70/953 (7.4) 1.24 (0.69, 2.21) 0.57
≥1790.3 27/473 (5.7) 1.85 (0.71, 4.77) 52/904 (5.8) 1.73 (0.87, 3.43)
Comorbidity burden
0 12/417 (2.9) 1.16 (0.28, 4.82) 0.39 32/963 (3.3) 1.77 (0.76, 4.10) 0.54
1-7 46/529 (8.7) 2.12 (1.07, 4.17) 90/894 (10.1) 1.29 (0.76, 2.20)
Survival time (year)
1-6 27/441 (6.1) 2.17 (0.87, 5.37) 0.34 N/A N/A N/A
≥7 31/505 (6.1) 1.72 (0.75, 3.98) N/A N/A

Abbreviations: aHR: adjusted hazard ratio, CI: confidence interval, RFM: relative fat mass

*

Cutoffs of relative fat mass were as follows—low: female: <35%, male: <25%; moderate: female: 35–39.9%, male: 25–29.9%; high: female: ≥40%, male: ≥30%.

The model treated LMM as the exposure of interest and adjusted for age, sex, race, education, marital status, smoking status, relative fat mass, energy intake, physical exercise, burden of comorbidities, history of more than 1 cancer (for survivors), and time elapsed since cancer diagnosis (for survivors). In each set of subgroup, factors used for stratification were not included in the multivariable model.