Open Access<p>Value of Visceral Fat Area in the Preoperative Discrimination of Peritoneal Metastasis from Gastric Cancer in Patients with Different Body Mass Index: A Prospective Study</p>
Author(s) -
He Huang,
Xinxin Yang,
Jing Sun,
Ce Zhu,
Xiang Wang,
Yi Zeng,
Jingxuan Xu,
Chenchen Mao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cancer management and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 40
ISSN - 1179-1322
DOI - 10.2147/cmar.s257849
Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , univariate analysis , gastroenterology , logistic regression , obesity , odds ratio , receiver operating characteristic , multivariate analysis , metastasis , cutoff , cancer , gastrectomy , prospective cohort study , physics , quantum mechanics
Although peritoneal metastasis (PM) is associated with poor prognosis in gastric cancer (GC) patients, it is difficult to discriminate preoperatively. Our previous study has demonstrated visceral fat area (VFA) is a better obesity index than body mass index (BMI) in predicting abdominal metastasis. This study aimed to further explore the relationship between obesity and PM.