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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Apr 25.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Med. 2023 Apr 12;29(4):846–858. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02232-8

Table 1. Baseline patient characteristics of TRACERx and BLCS cohorts.

SD standard deviation, BMI body mass index, VAT visceral adipose tissue, SAT subcutaneous adipose tissue, SKM skeletal muscle

TRACERx (N=651) BLCS (N=420)
Age, Mean (SD), years 68.7 (9.12) 64.53 (10.1)
BMI, mean (SD), kg/m2 26.7 (5.11) 26.48 (5.4)
Weight, mean (SD), m 75.0 (16.9) 75.02 (18.2)
Height, mean (SD), m 1.67 (0.1) 1.68 (0.1)
VAT baseline, mean (SD), cm2 138 (98.7) 145.5 (113.9)
SAT baseline, mean (SD), cm2 169 (94.3) 190.5 (103.5)
SKM baseline, mean (SD), cm2 126 (34.5) 133.6 (33.9)
Sex
  Female 286 (43.9%) 198 (47.1)
  Male 365 (56.1%) 222 (52.9)
Ethnicity
  White-Caucasian 411 (97.9)
  African American 9 (2.1)
  Non-White 36 (5.5%)
  White-British-Irish 590 (90.6%)
  White-Other 22 (3.4%)
  Missing 3 (0.5%)
Smoking status
  Current Smoker 89 (13.7%) 155 (36.9)
  Ex-Smoker 513 (78.8%) 216 (51.4)
  Never Smoked 49 (7.5%) 49 (11.7)
NSCLC stage
  IA 131 (20.1%) 203 (48.3) - all stage I
  IB 139 (21.4%)
  IIA 124 (19.0%) 63 (15.0) - all stage II
  IIB 113 (17.4%)
  IIIA 138 (21.2%) 154 (36.7) - all stage III
  IIIB 6 (0.9%)
Histology
  Adenocarcinoma 362 (55.6%) 223 (53.1)
  Squamous cell carcinoma 211 (32.4%) 104 (24.8)
  Other 65 (10.0%) 93 (22.1)
  N/A 13 (2.0%)
Adjuvant treatment
  Adjuvant 227 (34.9%) 229 (54.5)
  No adjuvant 408 (62.7%) 191 (45.5)
  Missing 16 (2.5%)