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Table 1 Clinical data for patients and control subjects from centers 1 and 2

From: Using transcriptomics to identify and validate novel biomarkers of human skeletal muscle cancer cachexia

 

Center 1

Center 1

Center 2

 

no-cancer

patients

patients

 

(n = 7)

(n = 52)

(n = 13)

Male/female

5/2

34/18

12/1

Age (years)

51 (5.5)

66 (1.3)*

65 (1.5)*

% weight loss

0

8.9 (1.1)*

7.7 (2.0)*

BMI

30.6 (1.3)

25.5 (0.5)*

25.5 (1.2)

CRP

2.8 (0.7)

17.4 (4.4)

-

MAMC

25.9 (1.3)

24.4 (0.4)

-

  1. Mean (standard error of the mean) values are presented. *P < 0.05 compared with center 1 control. Center 1: Edinburgh, UK; centre 2: Stockholm, Sweden. BMI: body mass index; CRP: C reactive protein; MAMC: mid-arm muscle circumference.