Visceral-to-Subcutaneous Fat Ratio Is a Potential Predictor of Postoperative Complications in Colorectal Cancer

08 June 2021: Clinical Research

An-Qi He ^BCDEF* , Chun-Qiang Li ^BCDEF* , Qi Zhang ^B , Tong Liu ^D , Jian Liu ^F , Gang Liu ^A*

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.930329

Med Sci Monit 2021; 27:e930329

Table 2 Degree of collinearity between patient baseline characteristics and CT-derived anthropometries.

	VFA	SFA	VSR
Age (years)^*		0.050	0.063
Female sex^**	0.447
Body mass index^*			0.514
Medical comorbidities^**
Hypertension	0.003	0.037	0.231
Diabetes mellitus	0.089	0.156	0.457
Coronary artery disease/myocardial infarction	0.716	0.072	0.246
Anemia^**	0.947	0.759	0.876
Hypoalbuminemia^**	0.743	0.370	0.845
AJCC staging^***	0.338	0.769	0.477
Site of primary lesion^****	0.831	0.970	0.578
Surgical time^*	0.004	0.176	0.025
Volume of blood loss^*	0.714	0.506	0.193
Number of lymph nodes^*	0.080	0.176	0.068
VFA – visceral fat area; SFA – subcutaneous fat area; VSR – visceral-to-subcutaneous fat ratio. ^* Pearson product-moment correlation; ^ Mann-Whitney U test with 2 independent samples; ^* Kendall’s tau-b test; ^**** One-way ANOVA.