Table 2.
Handgrip strength according to tumor entity and age.
| Overall (n = 628) | Female (n = 260) | Male (n = 368) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (year) | n | HGS Mean (kg) (SD) | p | n | HGS Mean (kg) (SD) | p | n | HGS Mean (kg) (SD) | p |
| <50 | 30 | 38.5 (15.4) | <0.001 | 21 | 23.1 (8.9) | <0.001 | 9 | 45.1 (12.7) | <0.001 |
| 50–59 | 66 | 29.6 (10.3) | 40 | 23.2 (6.0) | 26 | 33.7 (10.5) | |||
| 60–69 | 119 | 24.4 (9.9) | 66 | 19.0 (6.6) | 53 | 28.8 (10.0) | |||
| 70–79 | 233 | 23.3 (8.9) | 135 | 17.3 (6.3) | 98 | 27.6 (8.0) | |||
| 80–89 | 146 | 19.6 (9.2) | 84 | 14.5 (5.3) | 62 | 23.4 (9.6) | |||
| ≥90 | 34 | 15.7 (8.7) | 22 | 8.8 (4.8) | 12 | 19.5 (8.0) | |||
| Tumor entity | |||||||||
| Hematological tumors | 124 | 23.1 (11.0) | <0.001 | 53 | 18.3 (7.0) | 0.48 | 71 | 26.7 (12.1) | 0.002 |
| Lung cancer | 103 | 27.4 (10) | 29 | 18.9 (4.5) | 74 | 30.8 (9.6) | |||
| Gastrointestinal tumors | 78 | 24.1 (11.3) | 30 | 16.4 (6.0) | 48 | 28.9 (11.2) | |||
| Prostate carcinoma | 62 | 23.6 (7.4) | - | - | 62 | 23.6 (7.4) | |||
| Breast carcinoma | 56 | 17 (17.4) | 55 | 16.9 (7.4) | 1 | 18 | |||
| Other * | 205 | 23.7 (11.5) | 93 | 16.9 (7.4) | 112 | 29.3 (11.3) | |||
Abbreviations: HGS, handgrip strength; SD, standard deviation. * Gynecological cancers, kidney and urothelial cancers, ear, nose and throat carcinoma, genital cancer, skin cancer, pleural mesothelioma and cancer of unknown primary.