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Table 1 Descriptive characteristics

From: Hand-held dynamometry in patients with haematological malignancies: Measurement error in the clinical assessment of knee extension strength

Demographic and medical measures

Patients with haematological malignancies (n = 24; Included for analyses)

Patients with haematological malignancies (n = 6; Excluded for analyses)

p-value

Mean Age in years (sd)

50.1

(14.6)

39.5

(8.9)

0.042

Mean Height in cm (sd)

170.1

(7.7)

183.5

(8.1)

0.001

Mean Weight in kg (sd)

72.2

(11.7)

87.5

(9.3)

0.007

Mean BMI in kg/m2 (sd)

24.8 (3.9)

26.1 (1.4)

0.359

Mean 80% shank-length in cm (sd)

32.3

(2.2)

36.3

(1.50)

0.000

Mean time (days) since medical treatment (sd)

149.0

(70.2)

148.7

(69.2)

0.991

FACT-An

(13 fatigue items)

(Sd)

40.5

(7.0)

37.5

(11.7)

0.426

Haemoglobin (g/dl)

(Sd)

12.4

(1.7)

12.9

(2.3)

0.545

  1. Mean values for included and excluded patients with hematological malignancies. Differences were calculated by an unpaired t-test.