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Table 2 The clinicopathological characteristics stratified by the CONUT score

From: Preoperative controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score as a predictor of long-term outcome after curative resection followed by adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II-III gastric Cancer

	Low CONUT group	High CONUT group	P value
	(n = 480)	(n = 217)
Age (years)			0.070
< 60	296	118
≥ 60	184	99
Sex			0.247
Female	172	68
Male	308	149
Tumor size (cm)			0.002
< 5	261	91
≥ 5	219	126
Tumor location			0.062
Lower third	183	99
Upper/Middle third	297	118
Histological grade			0.053
Well differentiated	56	37
Poorly differentiated	424	180
Lauren histotype			0.403
Intestinal	103	59
Diffuse / Mixed	221	107
LVI			0.096
Absent	362	106
Present	27	14
pT stage			0.134
pT1/2	45	13
pT3/4	435	204
pN stage			0.010
pN0/1	190	64
pN2/3	290	153
Dissected lymph nodes			0.090
≤ 29	355	147
> 29	125	70
TNM stage			0.324
II	139	55
III	341	162
Operation type			0.109
Subtotal	332	163
Total/extended	148	54
Complications			0.161
No	375	159
Yes	105	58
Performance status			0.527
0	119	49
1/2	361	168
BMI (Kg/m2)			0.009
< 18.5	294	110
18.5≤	186	107
PNI			< 0.001
≥ 45	480	137
< 45	0	80
Anemia			< 0.001
No	378	110
Yes	102	107
CEA			0.164
Normal	381	162
Elevated	99	55
CA19–9			0.633
Normal	375	166
Elevated	105	51
CA72–4			0.738
Normal	364	161
Elevated	116	56

Abbreviations: CONUT controlling nutritional status, LVI lymphatic vessel infiltration, TNM tumor-node-metastasis staging, BMI body mass index, PNI prognostic nutritional index, CEA carcinoembryonic antigen, CA carbohydrate antigen

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