Cardiopulmonary Exercise Capacity and Preoperative Markers of Inflammation

Table 1

CPET demographics in colorectal surgery cohort, stratified according to the prognostically relevant anaerobic threshold <11 mL kg⁻¹ min⁻¹ and >11 mL kg⁻¹ min⁻¹.

	𝑉AT<11 mL kg^−1 min^-1	𝑉AT>11 mL kg^−1 min^−1	𝑃 value
Number	79	161
Age (y)	71 (69–73)	63 (61–66)	0.0001
Gender (male : female ratio)	1.05	1.47	0.30
Cancer (𝑛; %)	66 (86%)	114 (72%)	0.02
Chemotherapy (𝑛; %)	21 (13%)	11 (14%)	0.82
Body mass index (kg m^2)	29.6 (28.5–30.6)	27.4 (26.7–28.0)	0.0004
V̇E /V̇CO2	30.3 (28.9–31.7)	27.8 (27.2–28.5)	0.0004
Peak V̇O2 (mL kg^−1 min^−1)	14.8 (13.9–15.6)	22.5 (21.5–23.4)	<0.0001

Data are presented as mean (95% confidence intervals), unless stated otherwise.