Nutrition
Sarcopenia as a predictor of nutritional status and comorbidities in hospitalized patients with cancer: A cross-sectional study.
Borges TC, Gomes TLN, Pimentel GD
Sarcopenia promotes worsening of nutritional status and an increase in comorbidities. Likewise, use of validated instruments to assess nutritional and ...
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Source: PubMed
Joint Bone Spine 2020 Jan 30
Influence of the new EWGSOP2 consensus definition on studies involving (pre)sarcopenic older persons. Comment on «?Sarcopenia?» by Tournadre et al. Joint Bone Spine 2019;86(3):309-14.
Dupont J, Dedeyne L, Koppo K, Verschueren S, Tournoy J, Gielen E
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Source: PubMed
Exp. Gerontol.
Inflammatory biomarkers of frailty.
Vatic M, von Haehling S, Ebner N
Frailty is a functional term that describes a decline in physiological functions that leads to dependency, vulnerability to stressors, high risk for a ...
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Source: PubMed
Clin Nutr 2020 Jan 22
Automated body composition analysis of clinically acquired computed tomography scans using neural networks.
Paris MT, Tandon P, Heyland DK, Furberg H, Premji T, Low G, Mourtzakis M
The quantity and quality of skeletal muscle and adipose tissue is an important prognostic factor for clinical outcomes across several illnesses. Clini ...
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Exp. Gerontol. 2020 Jan 29
Age-related degeneration of the lumbar paravertebral muscles: Systematic review and three-level meta-regression.
Dallaway A, Kite C, Griffen C, Duncan M, Tallis J, Renshaw D, Hattersley J
Morphological changes of the lumbar spine muscles are not well characterised with ageing. To further the understanding of age-related degeneration of ...
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