The emerging role of the sympathetic nervous system in skeletal muscle motor innervation and sarcopenia

O Delbono, ACZ Rodrigues, HJ Bonilla… - Ageing research reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Examining neural etiologic factors' role in the decline of neuromuscular function with aging
is essential to our understanding of the mechanisms underlying sarcopenia, the age …

[HTML][HTML] Relationship of body mass index with frailty and all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older adults

K Jayanama, O Theou, J Godin, A Mayo, L Cahill… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Parallel to growth of aging and obese populations, the prevalence of metabolic
diseases is rising. How body mass index (BMI) relates to frailty and mortality across frailty …

Assessing skeletal muscle radiodensity by computed tomography: an integrative review of the applied methodologies

TS Poltronieri, NS de Paula… - Clinical Physiology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Low‐radiodensity skeletal muscle has been related to the degree of muscle fat infiltration
and seems to be associated with worse outcomes. The aim of this study was to summarize …

Nutritional risk and clinical outcomes in critically ill adult patients with COVID-19.

ALN Martinuzzi, W Manzanares, E Quesada… - Nutricion …, 2021 - europepmc.org
Introduction: the COVID-19 pandemic put the world's population at risk. As the relationship
between nutritional risk and clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with COVID-19 is still …

Machine learning for automatic paraspinous muscle area and attenuation measures on low-dose chest CT scans

R Barnard, J Tan, B Roller, C Chiles, AA Weaver… - Academic radiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Rationale and Objectives To develop and evaluate an automated machine learning (ML)
algorithm for segmenting the paraspinous muscles on chest computed tomography (CT) …

Association of brain atrophy and masseter sarcopenia with 1-year mortality in older trauma patients

C Tanabe, MJ Reed, TN Pham, K Penn, I Bentov… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Older adults are disproportionately affected by trauma and accounted for 47% of
trauma fatalities in 2016. In many populations and disease processes, described risk factors …

Radiographic assessment of sarcopenia in the trauma setting: a systematic review

DM Zumsteg, CE Chu, MJ Midwinter - Trauma Surgery & Acute Care …, 2020 - tsaco.bmj.com
Background Compared with similarly injured patients of a younger age, elderly patients
have worse outcomes from acute injury. One factor adversely affecting outcomes is …

Sarcopenia and postoperative complications, cost of care, and all-cause hospital readmission following lumbar spine arthrodesis: a propensity matched cohort study

JA Albright, K Chang, D Alsoof, CL McDonald… - World Neurosurgery, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Sarcopenia, characterized by decreased muscle mass and function, is projected to
affect more than 200 million people worldwide by 2060. This study aimed to evaluate the …

Low skeletal muscle mass predicts poor clinical outcomes in patients with abdominal trauma

F Xi, S Tan, T Gao, W Ding, J Sun, C Wei, W Li, W Yu - Nutrition, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate whether low skeletal muscle mass is
associated with clinical outcomes in patients with abdominal trauma. Methods Patients …

Sarcopenia is associated with increased mortality but not complications following resection and reconstruction of sarcoma of the extremities

NR Hendrickson, Z Mayo, A Shamrock… - Journal of surgical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Objectives Evidence regarding the impact of sarcopenia on
operative outcomes in patients with sarcoma is lacking. We evaluated the relationship …