Table 3.

Spearman’s rank correlation test results.

	CSA of the GM	CSA of the MM	CRT	Bilateral neck irradiation	BMI
Age	− 0.430*	− 0.401*	− 0.08	0.184	− 0.02
BMI	0.531*	0.410*	− 0.218	− 0.522*	–
Bilateral neck irradiation	− 0.220	− 0.222	0.410*	–
CRT	− 0.147	0.07	–
CSA of the MM	0.503*	–

CSA cross-sectional area, MM masseter muscle, GM geniohyoid muscle, CRT chemoradiotherapy, BMI body mass index.

*P < 0.05.