Phase Angle and the Diagnosis of Impending Death in Patients with Advanced Cancer: Preliminary Findings.

Oncologist · 2019 · PMC6656508 · PMID 30352942

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of borderline significancep = .045actually significant

Discussion In this study of patients admitted to an APCU and with a median survival of 10 days, the association between phase angle and overall survival was of borderline significance in the entire cohort ( p = .045 in log‐rank test and p = .054 in univariate Cox regression).

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a nonsignificant trendp = .57not close (p > 0.1)

examined phase angle in 50 patients with advanced cancer from inpatient units with a median survival of approximately 2 months, and reported that a higher phase angle had a nonsignificant trend toward longer survival (univariate HR 0.81, 95% CI 0.66–1.01, p = .57; multivariate HR 0.79, 95% CI 0.61–1.01, p = .064) [ 15 ].

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