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. 2023 Jan 6;23:9. doi: 10.1186/s12877-022-03703-2

Table 3.

The relationship between clinicopathological variables, malnutrition, CT-BC measurements and systemic inflammation in patients undergoing potentially curative resection for CRC, stratified by mFI-5 frailty score (n = 1002)

mFI-5= 0
(n=397)/%
mFI-5 = 1
(n = 384) /%
mFI-5 ≥ 2
(n = 221)/ %
P Value1
Age (years)
 < 65 165 (42%) 114 (30%) 66 (30%)  < 0.001
 65-74 157 (40%) 135 (35%) 75 (34%)
 >74 75 (19%) 135 (35%) 80 (36%)
Sex
 Male 222 (56%) 212 (55%) 120 (54%) 0.697
 Female 175 (44%) 172 (45%) 101 (46%)
Tumour Site
 Colon 209 (53%) 246 (64%) 147 (67%) < 0.001
 Rectum 188 (47%) 138 (36%) 74 (34%)
TNM Stage
 I 89 (23%) 98 (26%) 53 (24%) 0.072
 II 148 (37%) 158 (41%) 98 (44%)
 III 160 (40%) 138 (33%) 70 (32%)
Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy
 No 325 (83%) 338 (88%) 194 (89%) 0.024
 Yes 68 (17%) 45 (12%) 25 (11%)
MUST Risk 2
 Low 331 (84%) 302 (81%) 177 (82%) 0.630
 Medium 30 (8%) 36 (10%) 25 (12%)
 High 32 (8%) 36 (10%) 15 (7%)
BMI (kg/m 2 )
 < 20 23 (6%) 28 (7%) 7 (3%) 0.034
 20-24.9 114 (29%) 122 (32%) 56 (25%)
 25-29.9 147 (37%) 118 (31%) 72 (33%)
 ≥ 30 113 (29%) 116 (30%) 86 (39%)
High SFI
 No 81 (20%) 82 (21%) 36 (16%) 0.299
 Yes 316 (80%) 302 (79%) 185 (84%)
High VFA
 No 111 (28%) 113 (29%) 47 (21%) 0.128
 Yes 286 (72%) 271 (71%) 174 (79%)
Low SMI
 No 204 (51%) 184 (48%) 104 (48%) 0.407
 Yes 193 (49%) 200 (52%) 114 (52%)
Low SMD
 No 163 (41%) 112 (29%) 59 (27%) < 0.001
 Yes 234 (59%) 272 (71%) 162 (73%)
NLR
 < 3 224 (56%) 194 (51%) 105 (48%) 0.019
 3-5 116 (29%) 121 (31%) 73 (33%)
 > 5 57 (14%) 69 (18%) 43 (19%)
mGPS
 0 301 (76%) 271 (70%) 159 (72%) 0.028
 1 50 (13%) 41 (11%) 18 (8%)
 2 46 (12%) 72 (19%) 44 (20%)
SIG
 0 187 (47%) 155 (40%) 85 (39%) 0.006
 1 107 (27%) 94 (25%) 59 (27%)
 2 58 (15%) 80 (21%) 41 (19%)
 ≥ 3 45 (11%) 55 (14%) 36 (16%)
Post Operative Complication
 No 274 (69%) 214 (56%) 126 (57%) < 0.001
 Yes 123 (31%) 170 (44%) 95 (43%)
Thirty-day Mortality
 No 395 (99%) 381 (99%) 215 (97%) 0.019
 Yes 2 (1%) 3 (1%) 6 (3%)

1P value from χ2 analysis

2 18 patients missing MUST assessment