Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

Characteristic	Patients Randomly Assigned to No Fresh Fruits and Vegetables (cooked diet; n = 78)			Patients Randomly Assigned to Fresh Fruits and Vegetables (raw diet; n = 75)			Patients Not Randomly Assigned (preferred cooked diet; n = 53)			P
		No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Age, years							.62
Median	64			63			66
Range	17-88			47-84			49-81
ERM score
25th percentile	0.05			0.05			0.05			.98
Median	0.11			0.14			0.12
75th percentile	0.25			0.26			0.32
Disease							.63
AML	75		69		51
MDS	3		6		2
Voriconazole prophylaxis	14	18	8	11	0		.005*
Chemotherapy
With cytarabine	65	83	52	69	40	75	.13†
Idarubicin + cytarabine ± tipifarnib	32		24		21
Clofarabine + cytarabine	20		18		16
Fludarabine + cytarabine	10		9		3
Without cytarabine	13	17	23	31	13	25
Clofarabine	3		11		2
VNP40101M	4		8		8
High dose	70	90	70	93	50	94	.64
Targeted	8	10	5	7	3	6
No. of days on study							.27
Median	24			24			24
Range	10-47			6-42			8-45

Abbreviations: ERM, early risk of mortality; AML, acute myeloid leukemia; MDS, myelodysplastic syndrome.

^*P = .25 for comparison of cooked v raw groups.

^†P = .06 for comparison of cooked v raw groups.