Table 6.
Summary of body morphomics and quality of life correlations
| Body weight | Body mass index | Psoas muscle | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pearson’s r | P value | Pearson’s r | P value | Pearson’s r | P value | |
| UW QOL | ||||||
| Activity | −0.219 | 0.213 | −0.189 | 0.284 | −0.399 | 0.019 |
| Chewing | −0.324 | 0.062 | −0.289 | 0.097 | −0.284 | 0.104 |
| Disfigurement | −0.033 | 0.853 | 0.077 | 0.665 | 0.197 | 0.264 |
| Employment | −0.056 | 0.753 | −0.0004 | 0.998 | 0.033 | 0.853 |
| General pain | −0.404 | 0.018 | −0.374 | 0.029 | −0.226 | 0.198 |
| Mouth pain | −0.21 | 0.233 | −0.197 | 0.264 | −0.137 | 0.44 |
| Mucus amount | −0.132 | 0.456 | −0.119 | 0.503 | −0.239 | 0.173 |
| Mucus consistency | 0.091 | 0.609 | −0.08 | 0.653 | 0.014 | 0.937 |
| Recreation/entertainment | −0.423 | 0.013 | −0.378 | 0.028 | −0.438 | 0.0096 |
| Saliva amount | −0.031 | 0.862 | 0.0001 | 0.999 | −0.048 | 0.787 |
| Saliva consistency | 0.159 | 0.369 | 0.217 | 0.218 | 0.157 | 0.375 |
| Speech | −0.398 | 0.0197 | −0.37 | 0.031 | −0.252 | 0.151 |
| Swallowing | −0.240 | 0.172 | −0.226 | 0.199 | −0.401 | 0.019 |
| Taste | −0.338 | 0.05 | −0.306 | 0.078 | −0.066 | 0.711 |
| Throat Pain | −0.194 | 0.272 | −0.2 | 0.256 | −0.152 | 0.291 |
| UM HNQOL | ||||||
| Emotion domain: concerns regarding… | ||||||
| Cancer related physical problems | −0.143 | 0.419 | −0.129 | 0.467 | −0.453 | 0.007 |
Correlations between changes in body morphomics measures from pre-treatment to 3 months post-treatment with UWQOL and HNQOL measures from pre- to 6 months post-treatment. Of note, “concerns regarding cancer related physical problems” was the only measure that correlated with BMA out of the 4 HNQOL domains
Statistically significant associations between weight, BMI, and body morphomic parameter with quality of life domains are underlined