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. 2016 Oct 25;7(14):2148–2156. doi: 10.7150/jca.16455

Table 2.

Overall survival based on five nutritional-based scores in 1320 gastric cancer patients.


OS (months)
Patients [n (%)] mean (95% CI) P-valuea
PNI <0.001
0 1178 (89.2) 95.6 (90.9, 100.3)
1 142 (10.8) 65.8 (54.0, 77.6)
BMI (Kg/m2) 0.041
<18.5 545 (41.3) 89.6 (82.8, 96.3)
18.5≤ and <25.0 439 (33.3) 89.8 (82.4, 97.2)
25.0≤ 336 (25.5) 96.3 (88.3, 104.4)
Serum albumin (g/L) <0.001
<35 1201 (91.0) 94.5 (89.9, 99.1)
≥35 119 (9.0) 65.7 (52.2, 79.2)
Preoperative body weight loss <0.001
<5% 898 (68.0) 101.7 (96.4, 107.0)
≥5% 422 (32.0) 70.5 (63.4, 77.6)
PNS <0.001
0 511 (38.7) 107.5 (100.6, 114.3)
1 722 (54.7) 86.1 (80.1, 92.0)
2 87 (6.6) 53.3 (39.9, 66.8)

Abbreviations: PNI = Prognostic Nutritional Index; BMI = body mass index; PNS = Preoperative nutritional status; a Kaplan-Meier survival analysis.