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Table 6 Summary of body morphomics and quality of life correlations

From: Investigating the clinical significance of body composition changes in patients undergoing chemoradiation for oropharyngeal cancer using analytic morphomics

 

Body weight

Body mass index

Psoas muscle

Pearson’s r

P value

Pearson’s r

P value

Pearson’s r

P value

UW QOL

      

Activity

−0.219

0.213

−0.189

0.284

−0.399

0.019

Chewing

−0.324

0.062

−0.289

0.097

−0.284

0.104

Disfigurement

−0.033

0.853

0.077

0.665

0.197

0.264

Employment

−0.056

0.753

−0.0004

0.998

0.033

0.853

General pain

−0.404

0.018

−0.374

0.029

−0.226

0.198

Mouth pain

−0.21

0.233

−0.197

0.264

−0.137

0.44

Mucus amount

−0.132

0.456

−0.119

0.503

−0.239

0.173

Mucus consistency

0.091

0.609

−0.08

0.653

0.014

0.937

Recreation/entertainment

−0.423

0.013

−0.378

0.028

−0.438

0.0096

Saliva amount

−0.031

0.862

0.0001

0.999

−0.048

0.787

Saliva consistency

0.159

0.369

0.217

0.218

0.157

0.375

Speech

−0.398

0.0197

−0.37

0.031

−0.252

0.151

Swallowing

−0.240

0.172

−0.226

0.199

−0.401

0.019

Taste

−0.338

0.05

−0.306

0.078

−0.066

0.711

Throat Pain

−0.194

0.272

−0.2

0.256

−0.152

0.291

UM HNQOL

      

Emotion domain: concerns regarding…

      

 Cancer related physical problems

−0.143

0.419

−0.129

0.467

−0.453

0.007

  1. Correlations between changes in body morphomics measures from pre-treatment to 3 months post-treatment with UWQOL and HNQOL measures from pre- to 6 months post-treatment. Of note, “concerns regarding cancer related physical problems” was the only measure that correlated with BMA out of the 4 HNQOL domains
  2. Statistically significant associations between weight, BMI, and body morphomic parameter with quality of life domains are underlined