Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics
| Demographic and medical measures | Patients with haematological malignancies (n = 24; Included for analyses) | Patients with haematological malignancies (n = 6; Excluded for analyses) | p-value |
| Mean Age in years (sd) | 50.1 (14.6) |
39.5 (8.9) |
0.042 |
| Mean Height in cm (sd) | 170.1 (7.7) |
183.5 (8.1) |
0.001 |
| Mean Weight in kg (sd) | 72.2 (11.7) |
87.5 (9.3) |
0.007 |
| Mean BMI in kg/m2 (sd) | 24.8 (3.9) | 26.1 (1.4) | 0.359 |
| Mean 80% shank-length in cm (sd) | 32.3 (2.2) |
36.3 (1.50) |
0.000 |
| Mean time (days) since medical treatment (sd) | 149.0 (70.2) |
148.7 (69.2) |
0.991 |
| FACT-An (13 fatigue items) (Sd) |
40.5 (7.0) |
37.5 (11.7) |
0.426 |
| Haemoglobin (g/dl) (Sd) |
12.4 (1.7) |
12.9 (2.3) |
0.545 |
Mean values for included and excluded patients with hematological malignancies. Differences were calculated by an unpaired t-test.