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Table 1.

Comparison of clinico-pathological features between patients with and without sarcopenia

Parameter		Total	Pre-chemotherapy sarcopenia		Total	Post-chemotherapy sarcopenia		P-value (sex)
Parameter		Total	Yes	No	Total	Yes	No	Baseline	Post-chemotherapy
BMI	< 18.5%	285	42	14	-	-	-	0	-
	18.5–24.99%		89	72
	25.0–29.99%		26	35
	≥ 30%		5	2
Age	≤ 65 Years	285	141	111	274	150	95	0.40	0.12
Age	> 65 Years	285	21	12	274	22	7	0.40	0.12
Smoker	Yes	285	41	18	274	43	11	0.02	0
Smoker	No	285	121	105	274	129	91	0.02	0
SMD	Good (> 36.62)	285	34	66	274	42	59	0	0
SMD	Poor (≤ 36.62)	285	128	57	274	130	43	0	0
Gender	Male	285	115	44	274	121	29	0	0
Gender	Female	285	47	79	274	51	73	0	0
ALI	Good (> 28.02)	285	55	53	274	-	-	0.12	-
ALI	Poor (≤ 28.02)	285	107	70	274	-	-	0.12	-
mALI	Good (> 55.33)	285	54	58	274	80	67	0.02	0.02
mALI	Poor (≤ 55.33)	285	108	65	274	92	35	0.02	0.02
NLR	Good (≤ 3)	285	55	55	274	88	63	0.06	0.08
NLR	Poor (> 3)	285	107	68	274	84	39	0.06	0.08
Chemotherapy regimen received	Geftinib	285	78	65	-	-	-	0.43	-
Chemotherapy regimen received	Pemetrexed plus platins	285	84	58	-	-	-	0.43	-
Grades of drug toxicity	High grade	273	87	83	-	-	-	0.06	-
Grades of drug toxicity	Low grade	273	65	38	-	-	-	0.06	-
Performance status	0–1	285	150	118	-	161	97	0.23	0.61
Performance status	≥ 2	285	12	5	-	11	5	0.23	0.61
Progression	Yes	285	118	92		-	-	0.71
Progression	No	285	44	31		-	-	0.71
Final status	Alive	285	25	42	-	-	-	0	-
Final status	Dead	285	137	81	-	-	-	-	-

-: not applicable. Bold values indicate significant P-values

Declarations

Author contributions

AM: Conceptualization, Project administration, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing—review & editing. DG: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing—review & editing, Writing—original draft, Software. UA, KP, VN, AJ, NM, VP, and SS: Data curation, Investigation. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

The study was conducted after clearance from Institutional Ethics Committee (3088; Tata Memorial Hospital) and conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the Indian Council of Medical Research 2017. The research of this article meets the requirements of the Declaration of Helsinki.

Consent to participate

Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants.

Consent to publication

Informed consent to publication was obtained from relevant participants.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets generated in this study are available on request to Abhishek Mahajan (drabhishek.mahajan@yahoo.in; abhiradiology@gmail.com).

Funding

Not applicable.

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