Table 3.

Mean length of hospital stay for patients with and without sarcopenia for the two cancer cohorts. Length of hospital stay is shown as (a) that related to surgery and (b) the total for all patients. Averages are displayed as mean ± SEM

	Sarcopenic	Not sarcopenic	Sig.
Colorectal	n = 19	n = 55
Surgical length of hospital stay (days)	11.06 ± 1.71	11.96 ± 1.72	0.760
	n = 18	n = 45
Total length of hospital stay (days)	14.39 ± 2.27	15.24 ± 2.92	0.871
	n = 18	n = 54
	Sarcopenic	Not sarcopenic	Sig.
NSCLC	n = 22	n = 31
Surgical length of hospital stay (days)	6.17 ± 1.92	7.33 ± 1.68	0.496
	n = 6	n = 15
Total length of hospital stay (days)	2.91 ± 1.35	7.71 ± 1.52	0.027 *
	n = 21	n = 28

NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; SEM, standard error of the mean.

Significance is summarised as follows: * p ≤ 0.05, ** p ≤ 0.01, *** p ≤ 0.001.