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. 2022 Mar 4;9:792577. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.792577

Table 1.

Patient characteristics stratified by diabetes.

Characteristics Groups
Non-DM (n%) DM (n%) Total P-value
Age (year)
   <65 2,038 (80.5) 287 (72.5) 2,325 (79.4) <0.001
 ≥65 495 (19.5) 109 (27.5) 604 (20.6)
Sex
   Male 1,102 (43.5) 169 (42.7) 1,271 (43.4) 0.757
   Female 1,431 (56.5) 227 (57.3) 1,658 (56.6)
Smoking
   No 1,519 (60.0) 249 (62.9) 1,768 (60.4) 0.271
   Yes 1,014 (40.0) 147 (37.1) 1,161 (39.6)
Alcohol consumption
   No 2,050 (80.9) 327 (82.6) 2,377 (81.2) 0.437
   Yes 483 (19.1) 69 (17.4) 552 (18.8)
Tumor types
   Lung 773 (30.5) 125 (31.6) 898 (30.7) 0.001
   Digestive tract 507 (20.0) 91(23.0) 598 (20.4)
   Liver 136 (5.4) 41 (10.4) 177 (6.0)
   Leukemia 284 (11.2) 31 (7.8) 315 (10.8)
   Breast 625 (24.7) 76 (19.2) 701(23.9)
   Others 208 (8.2) 32 (8.1) 240(8.2)
TNM stages
   I 448 (18.6) 51 (13.3) 499 (17.9) <0.001
   II 569 (23.7) 86 (22.5) 655 (23.5)
   III 594 (24.7) 131 (34.2) 725 (26.0)
   IV 475 (19.8) 85 (22.2) 560 (20.1)
   Leukemia 318 (13.2) 30 (7.8) 348 (12.5)
PG-SGA
   0–1 1,035 (40.9) 133 (33.6) 1,168 (39.9) 0.002
   2–3 437 (17.3) 62 (15.7) 499 (17.1)
   4–8 744 (29.4) 130 (32.8) 874 (29.9)
 ≥9 314 (12.4) 71 (17.9) 385 (13.2)
NRS-2002
   <3 2,077 (90.7) 328 (92.7) 24,05 (90.9) 0.224
 ≥3 214 (9.3) 26 (7.3) 240 (9.1)
QoL-C30
   <60 795 (31.5) 140 (35.4) 935 (32.0) 0.117
 ≥60 1,730 (68.5) 255 (64.6) 1,985 (68.0)
VFA (cm2)
   <90 1,352 (53.4) 188 (47.5) 1,540 (52.6) 0.029
 ≥90 1,181 (46.6) 208 (52.5) 1,389 (47.4)

DM, diabetes mellitus; PG-SGA, the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment; NRS-2002, the Nutritional Risk Screening-2002 score; QoL-C30, quality of life; VFA, visceral fat area.