Fig. 3

Event plots for disability-free and post-disability survival. The bars represent the duration in months of disability-free (white) and post-disability (gray) survival for each of the 19 cachectic patients and 11 non-cachectic patients. The arrows represent the patients alive or censored at the data cutoff date (April 30, 2016). Disabling events were defined as a decrease in the Barthel index from the baseline value by >10 points