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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2018 May 24;124(14):3008–3015. doi: 10.1002/cncr.31405

Table 4.

Muscle radiodensity (HU) and overall mortality, by patient characteristics

Overall Mortality
Normal Low SMD
At-
risk		 Events HR Lower
bound,
95%
CI		 Upper
bound,
95%
CI		 p for interaction
Sex
  Male 1634 469 Referent 1.57 1.25 1.97 0.57
  Female 1628 410 Referent 1.63 1.28 2.07
Age at diagnosis, years
  <64 1627 312 Referent 2.43 1.77 3.32 0.04
  >=64 1635 567 Referent 1.57 1.30 1.90
Stage
  I 979 171 Referent 2.01 1.39 2.89 0.09
  II 1030 255 Referent 1.28 0.95 1.73
  III 1253 453 Referent 1.57 1.23 2.00

"SMD"=skeletal muscle radiodensity (HU)

Associations were adjusted for multiple covariates indicated in Tables 2 and 3, except for stratification variables