marginal significanceP = 0.0855
21 , 28 , 41 , 42 In our results, for the entire cohort, and subjects without HCC at baseline, higher baseline myostatin levels were associated with significantly worse survival, and this had marginal significance ( P = 0.0855 for the entire cohort and P = 0.0778 for patients without HCC) in our multivariate analysis.