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Table 1 Patient, disease and treatment-related characteristics of included patients (n = 528)

From: Timed up and go test and long-term survival in older adults after oncologic surgery

Variable

 

Sex

 Female

282

(53.4)

 Male

246

(46.6)

Age (years)

75

(6)

Body Mass Index (Kg/m2)

  

  ≥ 25

327

(61.9)

Comorbidities presenta

 Peripheral arterial diseases (including hypertension)

240

(45.5)

 Cardiac diseases (incl. Atrial fibrillation)

134

(25.4)

 Diabetes

94

(17.8)

 Pulmonary diseases (asthma, COPD etc.)

71

(13.5)

 Patients with 2 or more comorbidities

172

(32.6)

Tumor site

 Gastro-intestinal

245

(46.5)

 Skin, soft tissue and lymph node

82

(15.6)

 Breast

67

(12.7)

 Gynecological

63

(12.0)

 Hepatic, biliary and pancreatic

41

(7.8)

 Para- and thyroid

16

(3.0)

 Renal and bladder

8

(1.5)

 Other

5

(0.9)

Tumor stage at inclusion

 I

192

(36.3)

 II

84

(15.9)

 IIII

136

(25.8)

 IV

106

(20.1)

Anesthesia time (minutes)

195

[120-315]

Timed Up & Go test (seconds)

  ≥ 12

123

(23.3)

  1. aComorbidities that occur most frequently are shown here
  2. bfor categories, N (%) is given, for continues variables, mean (SD) or median [1st-3th quartile] were given were appropriate