Title |
Association Between Fat Mass to Lean Body Mass Ratio and All-Cause Mortality Among Middle-Aged and Elderly Cancer Patients Without Obesity: A Multi-Center Observational Study in China
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Published in |
Frontiers in Nutrition, June 2022
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DOI | 10.3389/fnut.2022.914020 |
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Authors |
Hongmei Xue, Hongzhen Du, Ying Xie, Yijing Zhai, Shiming Song, Bin Luo, Hong Qiu, Kunhua Wang, Jiuwei Cui, Chunhua Song, Hongxia Xu, Wei Li, Hanping Shi, Zengning Li, The Investigation on Nutrition Status and Its Clinical Outcome of Common Cancers Group, Zengqing Guo, Zhenming Fu, Chang Wang, Min Weng, Jingjing Cao, Fuxiang Zhou, Yuan Lin, Suyi Li, Yi Ba, Kaitao Yuan, Ming Liu, Wen Hu, Lan Zhou, Hu Ma, Qinghua Yao, Minghua Cong, Tao Li, Zihua Chen, Gongyan Chen, Qingchuan Zhao, Changyan Feng, Ying He, Jing Wu, Jiajun Yang, Xinxia Song, Yaying Yu, Wenjun Ma, Suxia Luo, Jin Zheng, Junqiang Chen, Qi Luo, Wei Wang, Qiuge Qiao, Yongmei Shi, Yumei Qi, Yongdong Feng, Haiping Jiang, Wenxian Guan, Jiaxin Chen, He Huang, Zheng Yu, Yu Fang |
Abstract |
We aimed to investigate the association between fat mass to lean body mass ratio (RFL), percentage of body fat (PBF), and fat mass (FM) with mortality among middle-aged and elderly cancer patients without obesity. This prospective hospital-based cohort study comprised 3,201 patients with stage I to IV cancer aged 40 years or above (mean age: 58 years for female patients and 61 years for male patients; mean length of follow-up was 1.67 years; the maximal follow-up length was 6.42 years). FM and PBF were measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). Cox proportional hazard models were used, and adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) were estimated. We revealed a significant association between RFL and all-cause mortality among men aged ≥60 years after adjusting for confounders. Compared with those in the lowest tertile of RFL, elderly men in the medium and highest tertile had a 35 and 34% lower hazard of death from any cause, respectively. After additionally adjusted for C-reaction protein (CRP), HRs of medium and high tertile of RFL became short of statistical significance [medium tertile: adjusted HRs (95% CI) = 0.74 (0.46, 1.20); highest tertile: adjusted HRs (95% CI) = 0.84 (0.53, 1.33)]. Among elderly women, RFL was significantly related to all-cause mortality only when the additional adjustment for CRP [medium tertile: adjusted HRs (95% CI) = 2.08 (1.08, 4.01); highest tertile: adjusted HRs (95% CI) = 0.90 (0.45, 1.81)]. No significant association between RFL and all-cause mortality was observed among female participants or male participants aged less than 60 years. Our findings showed a significant non-linear association between RFL and all-cause mortality, which was observed only in elderly men, and might be attenuated by their inflammation state. |
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