The Effect of Alcohol Consumption in Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Transarterial Chemoembolization

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of patients before and after propensity score matching.

Characteristics	Before matching			After matching
	Alcohol use	Alcohol abstinence	value	Alcohol use	Alcohol abstinence	value
Age (years)	55.8 ± 8.8	56.4 ± 10.6	0.640	55.7 ± 8.7	55.8 ± 10.8	0.953
AST	35.2 ± 21.1	35.3 ± 21.8	0.984	41.8 ± 30.5	40.4 ± 29.8	0.735
ALT	52.2 ± 42.4	47.3 ± 34.9	0.562	34.7 ± 20.6	36.5 ± 22.5	0.552
Bilirubin	18.1 ± 10.2	17.6 ± 8.9	0.650	18.4 ± 10.2	16.7 ± 8.7	0.209
Albumin	35.3 ± 21.8	38.9 ± 5.0	0.213	38.0 ± 6.8	38.6 ± 5.1	0.486
NLR	2.5 ± 2.0	3.1 ± 3.0	0.331	2.5 ± 2.1	2.8 ± 2.7	0.496
PLR	106.7 ± 64.8	121.9 ± 78.4	0.108	107.3 ± 65.6	107.7 ± 55.4	0.955
Max tumor size (cm)	7.0 ± 3.8	6.4 ± 3.5	0.156	7.1 ± 3.8	6.5 ± 3.7	0.298
Gender			0.618			0.788
Male	92	142		90	91
Female	9	11		8	7
Smoking			0.534			0.881
Yes	64	91		64	63
No	37	62		34	35
HBV infection			0.081			0.534
Yes	89	122		86	83
No	12	31		12	15
HCV infection			1.000			0.718
Yes	4	7		3	5
No	97	146		95	93
Cirrhosis			0.280			0.771
Yes	62	104		59	57
No	39	49		39	41
Ascites			0.980			0.809
Yes	10	18		10	9
No	91	135		88	89
TACE session			0.099			0.841
Once	17	15		15	14
Multiple times	84	138		83	84
Tumor number			0.512			0.436
1	35	47		32	27
≥2	66	106		66	71
BCLC stage			<0.001			0.479
A	3	5		3	4
B	56	107		56	63
C	42	41		39	31
AFP level			0.358			0.881
<200	63	104		63	64
≥200	38	49		35	34
Child-Pugh			0.083			>0.999
A	74	126		73	73
B	27	27		25	25
ECOG score			0.014			0.275
0	59	112		59	67
1	42	41		39	32