Table 2.

Demographics of controls and cancer patients included in the Affymetrix analysis from centre 1

	No-cancer	Cancer patients
	(n = 3)	(n = 18)	P
Male/female	2/1	12/6	-
Age (years)	45(2)	67(2)	<0.001
% weight loss	0	8.9(1.6)	<0.001
BMI	28.5(1.7)	24.4(0.8)	0.080
CRP	2.7(0.9)	19.7(8.1)	0.052
MAMC	23.8(1.7)	23.7(0.5)	0.960

Mean (standard error of the mean). BMI: body mass index; CRP: C reactive protein; MAMC: mid arm muscle circumference.