Fig 1.
Example of an axial computed tomography (CT) image of the third lumbar vertebra region with the analyzed skeletal muscles highlighted in red.
Table 1.
Patient characteristics.
Table 2.
Patient characteristics stratified into low and high muscle attenuation (MA) scores.
Fig 2.
Relative risk of death on the basis of the muscle attenuation (MA) score; optimal cutoff set at 39 as inferred by the Multivariable Fractional Polynomials (mfp) R-package using the optimal non-linear association (MA/100)2+(MA/100)3 with overall survival.
Fig 3.
Overall survival stratified by muscle attenuation (MA).
The present Kaplan-Meier-Curve has been corrected for the relevant clinic pathologic and anthropometric parameters.
Table 3.
Survival analysis of known clinical-pathological parameters together with body composition measurements (BMI, SMI, and MA).
Table 4.
Linear regression analysis of the relationship between plasma-cytokines and MA.
The univariate analysis is only shown for the 5 parameters remaining in the final multivariate model; 95%CI = 95% Confidence Interval.