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Published in final edited form as: Dysphagia. 2025 May 16;40(6):1414–1422. doi: 10.1007/s00455-025-10840-4

Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of the Study Population and Distribution of DIGEST Grades Among MBS exams (n=315 MBS examinations from 278 patients)

Age	Mean (Standard Deviation)	62.51 (8.53)
Gender	Female	34 (12.23%)
Gender	Male	244 (87.77%)
Primary diagnosis category (Patient numbers)	HNC	212 (76.25%)
	Multiple cancers, including HNC	18 (6.47%)
	Blood cancer	3 (1.08%)
	Metastatic cancer	4 (1.44%)
	Thoracic cancer	1 (0.03%)
	Multiple cancers, excluding HNC	2 (0.07%)
	Other solid tumors	7 (2.52%)
	other non-cancerous diseases	31 (11.15%)
DIGEST (MBS numbers)	0	80 (25.40%)
	1	75 (23.81%)
	2	74 (23.49%)
	3	79 (25.08%)
	4	7 (2.22%)