Fig 1.
Determination of body composition in patients with resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Axial contrast-enhanced portal-venous phase CT image at the L3 level of a sarcopenic obese patient (A, 67-year old female, BMI 33 kg/m2, total muscle tissue cross-sectional area 109.2 cm2, skeletal muscle index 39.3 cm2/m2) compared to a non-sarcopenic obese patient (B, 71-year old female, BMI 31 kg/m2, total muscle tissue cross-sectional area 130.4 cm2, skeletal muscle index 47.7 cm2/m2). Marked red: psoas, paraspinal, transverse abdominal, external oblique, internal oblique and rectus abdominis muscles.
Table 1.
Patient and tumor characteristics comparing sarcopenic and non-sarcopenic patients.
Table 2.
Patient and tumor characteristics comparing sarcopenic obese and non-sarcopenic obese patients.
Table 3.
Body composition data comparing sarcopenic and non-sarcopenic patients.
Table 4.
Overall and sex-specific body composition data.
Fig 2.
Kaplan Meier curve for overall survival in sarcopenic vs. non-sarcopenic patients.
Sarcopenia diminishes overall survival in patients with resectable PDAC (14 vs. 20 months, p = 0.016).
Fig 3.
Kaplan Meier curve for overall survival in sarcopenic vs. non-sarcopenic male patients.
Sarcopenia diminishes overall survival in male patients with resectable PDAC (15 vs. 25 months, p = 0.023).
Fig 4.
Kaplan Meier curve for overall survival in sarcopenic vs. non-sarcopenic female patients.
Sarcopenia does not diminish overall survival in female patients with resectable PDAC (14 vs. 20 months, p = 0.378).
Fig 5.
Kaplan Meier curve for overall survival in obese sarcopenic vs. non-sarcopenic patients (BMI ≥25 kg/m2).
Sarcopenia diminishes overall survival in obese patients with resectable PDAC (14 vs. 23 months, p = 0.007).
Fig 6.
Kaplan Meier curve for overall survival in normal/underweight sarcopenic vs. non-sarcopenic patients (BMI <25 kg/m2).
Sarcopenia does not diminish overall survival in normal/underweight patients with resectable PDAC (14 vs. 16 months, p = 0.679).
Table 5.
Kaplan Meier estimates for overall survival.
Table 6.
Uni- and multivariable Cox-Regression analyses and interaction models for overall survival.