Table 2.

Relationships between COA-NLR and clinico-pathologic characteristics of 873 patients undergoing curative resection without neoadjuvant treatment for gastric cancer

Characteristic	COA-NLR score			P-value
	Zero (n=488)	1 (n=328)	2 (n=57)
Sex				0.06
Male	317	239	38
Female	171	89	19
Age (years)				0.001
<60	291	156	25
≥60	197	172	32
Tumor size (cm)				<0.001
≤3	182	73	10
>3	306	255	47
Tumor location				0.02
Upper	182	159	29
Middle	100	54	8
Lower	206	115	20
Performance status				0.04
0	152	92	12
1	324	232	41
2	12	4	4
Preoperative weight loss				0.02
None	250	157	26
Limited	195	136	18
Severe	43	35	13
Adjuvant chemotherapy				0.08
No	178	98	15
Yes	310	230	42
Histological grade				0.004
Well differentiated	91	87	19
Poorly differentiated	397	241	38
Metastatic lymph node ratio				<0.001
<0.1	222	99	20
≥0.1	266	229	37
TNM stage (I/II/III)				<0.001
I	82	23	3
II	114	59	12
III	292	246	42

Abbreviations: COA-NLR, the combination of albumin level and neutrophil lymphocyte ratio; TNM, tumor–node–metastasis staging.