Performance of nutritional and inflammatory markers in patients with pancreatic cancer

Table 2 Difference between early and delayed discharge cohort with a cut-off of 15-day postoperative discharge

Characteristics	Early discharge cohort (n = 259)	Delayed discharge cohort (n = 187)	P value
Demographics
Age (years)	64.01 ± 8.57	66.58 ± 9.23	0.003b
Gender (male/female)	147/112	99/88	0.424
BMI (kg/m2)	22.76 ± 3.12	22.54 ± 2.81	0.453
Smoke (yes/no)	103/156	63/124	0.190
Hypertension (yes/no)	108/151	101/86	0.010a
Diabetes (yes/no)	67/192	63/124	0.073
Tumor features
Location			< 0.001c
Head	90	127
Neck	23	6
Body	53	16
Tail	45	13
Both body and tail	35	15
Others	13	10
Degree of differentiation			0.320
Poor	85	57
Moderate	132	107
Well	30	13
Unknow	12	10
TNM stage			0.942
Ⅰ	116	82
Ⅱ	80	59
Ⅲ	32	26
Ⅳ	31	20
Surgical information
Main surgical procedure			< 0.001c
Pancreaticoduodenectomy	98	132
Pancreaticocaudectomy	143	48
Others	18	7
Method of surgery			< 0.001c
Laparoscope	113	49
Open	146	138
Time of surgery (min)	282.61 ± 116.72	354.89 ± 124.67	< 0.001c
Bleeding (mL)	198.38 ± 168.88	218.29 ± 150.36	0.199
Inflammatory-nutritional markers
AGR	1.42 ± 0.24	1.44 ± 0.25	0.337
PNI	47.84 ± 5.72	46.43 ± 5.41	0.008b
SII	643.27 ± 476.16	815.72 ± 660.21	0.003b
NLR	3.13 ± 1.96	3.67 ± 2.20	0.007b
PLR	149.93 ± 70.93	174.77 ± 79.25	< 0.001c
NRI	103.90 ± 9.50	102.44 ± 8.93	0.102
GNRI	102.69 ± 9.40	101.26 ± 8.82	0.103

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.01.

^cP < 0.001.

Data are presented as mean ± SD. AGR: Albumin to globulin ratio; BMI: Body mass index; GNRI: Geriatric nutritional risk index; NLR: Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio; NRI: Nutritional risk index; PLR: Platelet to lymphocyte ratio; PNI: Prognostic nutrition index; SII: Systemic immune-inflammation index.