Impact of regular enteral feeding via jejunostomy during neo-adjuvant chemotherapy on body composition in patients with oesophageal cancer

Table 2 Change in body composition from diagnosis to post neo-adjuvant chemotherapy following regular enteral feeding via jejunostomy, n = 15

	Diagnosis	Post-chemotherapy	P value
Weight, mean ± SD, kg	74.5 ± 14.1	74.8 ± 13.1	0.6591
BMI, mean ± SD, kg/m2)	26.0 ± 3.8	26.1 ± 3.4	0.6231
Lumbar skeletal muscle index as cm2/m2, mean ± SD	45.8 ± 8.0	43.5 ± 7.3	0.0481
Lumbar adipose tissue index as cm2/m2, mean ± SD,	124.0 ± 53.7	124.6 ± 47.9	0.8781
Sarcopenic	5 (33.3)	9 (60.0)	0.2192
Myosteatotic	8 (53.3)	8 (53.3)	1.0002

¹Paired t-test;

²McNemar’s test. Values are number of patients with percentages in round parentheses unless indicated otherwise. SD: Standard deviation; BMI: Body mass index.