Table III.

Associations between changes in fat-free mass (FFM), and age, sex, lung function, dyspnoea, and fibrinogen. Estimates (beta coefficients) are adjusted for all the variables in the table.

	Δ FFM		Δ FFM of baseline
	R2 = 0.697		R2 = 0.682
	Coeff.	p	Coeff.	p
Age (years)	–0.120	0.03	–0.24	0.07
Female sex	–0.519	0.58	–0.658	0.77
FEV1 % of predicted	0.104	0.02	0.255	0.03
Dyspnoea CRDQ	0.336	0.01	0.661	0.03
Fibrinogen (mg/L)	0.588	0.16	1.63	0.11