The effects of nutritional support team intervention on postoperative immune function, nutritional statuses, inflammatory responses, clinical outcomes of elderly patients with gastric cancer

Table 1 Comparison of the general patient data between two groups

Basic data	TN group (n = 133)	NST group (n = 125)	P-value
Age (year, n)
60–69	79	88	0.17
70–79	47	31
80–89	7	6
Gender (Male/Female, n)	89/44	95/30	0.11
BMI (kg/m²)	21.8 ± 3.0	21.9 ± 3.0	0.49
Diabetes (n)
Yes	29	15	0.04
No	104	110	0.04
Hypertension (n)
Yes	40	26	0.09
No	93	99	0.09
Nutritional status (n)
Normal	106	87	0.06
Malnourished	27	38	0.06
ASA grade (n)
I	93	82	0.46
≥ II	40	43	0.46
Surgical site (n)
Proximal	16	22	0.04
Distal	62	39
Full stomach	55	64
Scope of lymph node dissection (n)
D1	9	12	0.41
D2	124	113	0.41
Tract reconstruction (n)
Billroth II	18	27	0.10
Roux-en-Y	115	98	0.10
Tumor stage (n)
I	38	48	< 0.01
II	62	33
III	33	44

TN traditional nutrition, NST nutrition support team, BMI body mass index, NRS2002 nutritional risk screening, PG-SGA patient-generated subjective global assessment, ASA American Society of Anesthesiologists

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