Table 3.

Associations between adipose tissue distribution parameters and disease-specific survival by multivariate Cox analysis in patients with gastric cancer.

	High SAT percent		High VAT percent		VAT/SAT ratio
	HR (95%CI)	P value	HR (95%CI)	P value	HR (95%CI)	P value
Adipose tissue distribution parameter	0.59 (0.36, 0.96)	0.032	1.68 (1.06, 2.68)	0.028	1.99 (1.19, 3.34)	0.009
Overweight/obesity	0.56 (0.34, 0.91)	0.021	0.55 (0.34, 0.91)	0.019	0.55 (0.33, 0.90)	0.017
Age (>65 years)	1.56 (1.13, 2.17)	0.008	1.54 (1.11, 2.14)	0.010	1.56 (1.12, 2.16)	0.008
Female	0.98 (0.69, 1.4)	0.929	0.93 (0.66, 1.32)	0.696	0.95 (0.67, 1.35)	0.794
T category
T1	1		1		1
T2	2.51 (0.88, 7.13)	0.085	2.49 (0.87, 7.08)	0.880	2.49 (0.88, 7.07)	0.087
T3	2.77 (0.52, 14.66)	0.230	2.86 (0.54, 15.09)	0.216	2.81 (0.53, 14.77)	0.223
T4a	3.59 (1.45, 8.88)	0.006	3.61 (1.46, 8.95)	0.006	3.63 (1.47, 8.95)	0.005
T4b	10.44 (3.35, 32.47)	<0.001	10.39 (3.34, 32.31)	<0.001	10.73 (3.47, 33.20)	<0.001
N category
N0	1		1		1
N1	2.38 (1.21, 4.68)	0.012	2.31 (1.17, 4.57)	0.016	2.33 (1.18, 4.60)	0.015
N2	2.45 (1.3, 4.61)	0.005	2.35 (1.25, 4.43)	0.008	2.42 (1.29, 4.54)	0.006
N3a	6.74 (3.63, 12.51)	<0.001	6.55 (3.53, 12.14)	<0.001	6.65 (3.60, 12.30)	<0.001
N3b	9.01 (4.47, 18.15)	<0.001	8.65 (4.3, 17.4)	<0.001	8.96 (4.46, 18.01)	<0.001
Chemotherapy	0.82 (0.54, 1.25)	0.356	0.81 (0.54, 1.23)	0.329	0.82 (0.54, 1.24)	0.340

BMI, body mass index; SAT, subcutaneous adipose tissue; VAT, visceral adipose tissue; HR, hazard ratios; CI, confidence interval.

Bold values represent statistically significant differences (P < 0.05).