Effect of exercise, nutritional, and psychological interventions on postoperative nutritional and mental status of patients with esophageal cancer

Table 1 General information of the patient

Characteristics	Observation group (n = 51)	Control group (n = 53)	t/χ2	P value
Sex
Male (%)	55 (28/51)	58 (31/53)	0.1362	0.712
Female (%)	45 (23/51)	42 (22/53)	-	-
Age (year), mean ± SD	53.69 ± 8.13	54.16 ± 7.97	0.2651	0.792
Pathological type
Squamous cell carcinoma (%)	39 (20/51)	40 (21/53)	0.0022	0.966
Adenocarcinoma (%)	31 (16/51)	34 (18/53)
Adenosquamous carcinoma (%)	30 (15/51)	26 (12/53)
TNM staging
I (%)	47 (24/51)	43 (22/51)	0.3252	0.569
II (%)	53 (27/51)	57 (31/51)	-	-
BMI (kg /m2), mean ± SD	21.33 ± 2.16	21.36 ± 2.18	0.0691	0.945

¹Unpaired Student’s t test.

²χ² test.

TNM: Tumor-node-metastasis; BMI: Body mass index.