Nutritional status and quality of life of the gastric cancer patients in Changle County of China

Table 1 Distribution of the total score of the quality of life in the patients.

Total scoreof qualityof life	2002–2003		1999
	Number of patients	%	Number of patients	%
<30	2	0.7	4	2
30-	1	0.35	6	3
40-	15	5.26	16	8
50-	55	19.3	54	27
60-	112	39.3	69	34.5
70-	71	24.91	41	20.5
80-	23	8.07	10	5
90–105	6	2.11	0	0

Table 2 Partial correlation analysis between nutrition intake and quality of life.

Nutrition	r	P	Nutrition	r	P
Calorie	0.22	0.0002	Selenium	0.24	<0.0001
Protein	0.25	<0.0001	Thiamine	0.21	0.0004
Calcium	0.21	0.0004	Riboflavin	0.25	<0.0001
Iron	0.19	0.0012	Niacin	0.25	<0.0001
Zinc	0.24	<0.0001	Vitamin C	0.05	0.3891

Table 3 Means of nutrition intake in three groups of the patients by sex.

Nutrition mean	Total score of quality of life for male				Total score of quality of life for female
	<60	60-80	>80	P1	<60	60-80	>80	P1
Calorie (kJ)	6947.93	7355.12	8301.17	0.08	6404.58	6726.34	13912.84	<0.001
Protein (g)	61.51	62.82	78.41	0.028	46.84	56.99	133.05	<0.001
Calcium (mg)	526.7	497.21	653.87	0.07	418.37	467.87	973.14	<0.001
Iron (mg)	21.22	20	27.98	0.034	15.01	18.6	46.67	0.002
Zinc (mg)	12.78	12.71	18.38	0.002	10.24	12.54	23.7	0.025
Selenium (mg)	24.33	24.98	30.74	0.028	20.38	23.89	40.58	0.122
Thiamine (mg)	1.48	1.57	1.82	0.045	1.35	1.42	2.76	0.007
Riboflavin (mg)	1.41	1.41	1.88	0.015	1.06	1.36	3.02	0.001
Niacin (mg)	11.72	13.36	16.39	0.036	10.89	12.45	27.35	0.007
Vitamin C (mg)	94.95	79.87	98.03	0.551	69.99	81.91	95.31	0.865

¹P value derived from the analysis of variance among three groups.

Table 4 Means of daily nutrition intake in the 285 patients.

Nutrition	Male (n = 231)		Female (n = 54)
	Reference value	Mean±SD	Reference value	Mean±SD
Calorie (kJ)	10080	7470.08 (2722.52)a	8820	6900.39 (2684.72)a
Protein (g)	70	65.37 (34.12)a	65	56.79 (30.21)a
Calcium (mg)	800	528.05 (385.61)a	800	509.73 (498.37)a
Iron (mg)	12	21.54 (17.44)a	18	18.57 (12.38)
Zinc (mg)	15	13.70 (9.42)a	15	12.27 (6.81)a
Selenium (mg)	50	25.90 (12.68)a	50	23.46 (13.30)a
Thiamine (mg)	1.2	1.60 (0.64)a	1.1	1.45 (0.62)a
Riboflavin (mg)	1.2	1.49 (0.93)a	1.1	1.34 (0.74)a
Niacin (mg)	12	13.69 (7.95)a	11	12.54 (7.14)
Vitamin C (mg)	60	84.86 (107.39)a	60	78.81 (83.93)

^aP<0.05. vs reference value.

Table 5 Result of stepwise regression at α = 0.05.

Factor	Standard parameter Standard		t	P
	estimate	error
Age (yr)	-0.119	0.012	-2.12	0.035
Family income	0.206	0.142	5.71	<0.001
Way of operation	-0.151	0.366	-2.75	0.007
Times of meals a day	0.241	0.164	4.12	<0.001
Exercise	0.139	0.376	2.38	0.018

Table 6 Means of daily nutrition intake by way of operation.

Nutrition	Total gastrectomy		Partial gastrectomy(n = 200)
	Times of meals(d) ≤3 (n = 44)	Times of meals(d) ≥4 (n = 41)
Calorie (kJ)	5553.66	7394.73	7759.08
Protein (g)	46.26	65.04	67.39
Calcium (mg)	406.13	536.43	548.5
Iron (mg)	15.13	22.03	22.06
Zinc (mg)	10.11	14.11	14.03
Selenium (mg)	20.36	26.76	26.1
Thiamine (mg)	1.17	1.63	1.72
Riboflavin (mg)	1.09	1.43	1.55
Niacin (mg)	9.71	14.16	14.17
Vitamin C (mg)	57.41	88.66	89.35