Table I.

General clinical data of patients in the two groups.

	Groups
Items	General diet	Nutrition therapy	t/x2 value	P-value
Cases (n)	80	102	0.218	0.828
Sex
Male	52	67	0.506	0.614
Female	28	35
Age (years)	60.32±5.13	61.08±4.45	0.004	1.000
Smoking status
Yes	54	68	0.382	0.945
No	26	34
Body weight (kg)	55.32±6.42	54.09±6.17	0.152	0.873
Disease course, month	5.92±2.12	6.09±2.37	0.252	0.871
Clinical stage
II	15	21	0.635	0.713
III	37	46
VI	28	35