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The hazard ratio of overall survival based on penalized smoothing spline by change in body mass index at diagnosis (ΔBMI, kg/m2) for (A) NSCLC and (B) SCLC, and Kaplan Meier survival curves for (C) NSCLC patients and (D) SCLC patients. The change compares the relationship between BMI at young adulthood (around 20 years of age) to the BMI at the time of the diagnosis as a means of correcting for heterogeneity of BMI in a healthy population.
