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Table 3 Comparison of parameters of patients with low and high vFMR

From: High visceral fat-to-muscle ratio is an independent factor that predicts worse overall survival in patients with primary epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, and peritoneal cancer

 

Low vFMR (n = 86)

High vFMR (n = 67)

p-value

Age at diagnosis, year

51.97 ± 13.40

60.79 ± 11.20

< 0.001*

BMI, kg/m2

21.99 ± 2.81

25.62 ± 4.82

< 0.001*

Visceral fat area, cm2

42.81 ± 21.38

140.33 ± 66.99

< 0.001*

Subcutaneous fat area, cm2

114.08 ± 49.84

177.50 ± 64.39

< 0.001*

SMA, cm2

101.36 ± 15.85

102.81 ± 17.06

0.588*

Skeletal muscle attenuation

45.33 ± 8.58

39.19 ± 8.99

< 0.001*

Skeletal muscle index

40.78 ± 6.26

42.48 ± 6.03

0.092*

WBC, /μL

6,616.40 ± 1,790.30

7,338.70 ± 2,596.49

0.055*

Absolute neutrophil count, /μL

4,331.50 ± 1,641.54

5,016.50 ± 2,496.38

0.056*

Lymphocyte, /μL

1,674.40 ± 661.43

1,686.50 ± 650.75

0.911*

Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio

3.15 ± 2.27

3.66 ± 3.31

0.265*

Hemoglobin, g/dL

11.93 ± 1.62

12.14 ± 1.52

0.392*

Platelet, 103/μL

288.33 ± 96.23

334.39 ± 117.89

0.011*

Albumin, g/dL

3.94 ± 0.53

3.94 ± 0.39

0.980*

PNI

49.11 ± 6.07

47.70 ± 6.55

0.179*

Age

 < 60

63

29

< 0.001†

 ≥ 60

23

38

 

DM/HTN

 No

70

35

< 0.001†

 DM or HTN

16

32

 

Menopause

 No

40

15

0.002†

 yes

46

52

 

BMI

 < 25

71

31

< 0.001†

 ≥ 25

15

36

 

Cell type

 serous

48

52

0.005†

 non-serous

38

15

 

First-line therapy strategy

 PDS

80

55

0.037†

 NAC

6

12

 

Optimal

 Optimal

65

50

0.892†

 suboptimal

22

16

 

FIGO stage

 1

37

12

NS††

 2

3

5

 

 3

32

39

 

 4

14

11

 

Chemoresponse

 sensitive

61

51

0.896†

 resistant

12

8

 

 unknown

4

3

 

Recur

 No

48

27

0.15†

 recur

31

34

 

 F/U loss

7

6

 

SMI

 < 38.7

34

17

0.065†

 ≥ 38.7

52

50

 
  1. BMI Body mass index, SMA Skeletal muscle area, WBC White blood cell, PNI Prognostic nutritional index, DM/HTN Diabetes/hypertension, PDS Primary debulking surgery, NAC Neoadjuvant chemotherapy, SMI Skeletal muscle index
  2. *Student’s t-test; † Chi-squared test; †† Fisher’s exact test