Table 2.
The Relationships Between the ALI, L3SMI and Clinicopathological Factors of Elderly EC Patients
| Characteristics | ALI | L3SMI | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR(95% CI) | P | OR(95% CI) | P | |
| Gender (Male) | 0.349(0.158–0.771) | 0.009 | 0.858(0.338–2.177) | 0.747 |
| Age (>70) | 1.439(0.750–2.763) | 0.274 | 0.736(0.354–1.530) | 0.412 |
| Smoke (Yes) | 0.674(0.343–1.328) | 0.254 | 0.855(0.407–1.795) | 0.678 |
| Alcohol drinking (Yes) | 0.551(0.282–1.077) | 0.081 | 0.850(0.409–1.767) | 0.663 |
| Lymphatic metastasis (Yes) | 0.685(0.356–1.319) | 0.258 | 0.446(0.210–0.946) | 0.035 |
| Cancer embolus (Yes) | 0.447(0.188–1.066) | 0.069 | 0.307(0.137–0.688) | 0.004 |
| Perineural invasion (Yes) | 0.713(0.238–2.138) | 0.546 | 0.733(0.241–2.234) | 0.585 |
| Differentiation (Poor) | 0.631(0.293–1.358) | 0.239 | 0.722(0.325–1.606) | 0.425 |
| Tumor depth(pT3+pT4) | 1.105(0.573–2.129) | 0.766 | 0.310(0.135–0.711) | 0.006 |
| GNRI(>96.6) | 8.468(3.943–18.186) | <0.001 | 5.992(2.445–14.685) | <0.001 |
| PNI(>45.35) | 3.628(1.650–7.976) | 0.001 | 2.810(1.327–5.952) | 0.007 |
| Tumor size(>4cm) | 0.488(0.251–0.949) | 0.035 | 1.039(0.501–2.158) | 0.917 |
| Pathology (Adenocarcinoma) | 0.423(0.087–2.063) | 0.287 | 0.287(0.078–1.051) | 0.060 |
| Tumor location | 0.344 | 0.923 | ||
| Upper | 1 | 1 | ||
| Middle | 1.019(0.268–3.868) | 0.978 | 0.810(0.159–4.111) | 0.799 |
| Lower | 0.607(0.152–2.425) | 0.480 | 0.733(0.140–3.844) | 0.714 |
Note: Bold values indicate statistically significant values.
Abbreviations: GNRI, Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index; PNI, prognostic nutritional index; L3SMI, L3 skeletal muscle index; ALI, advanced lung cancer inflammation index; EC, esophageal cancer; OR, odds ratio.