ArticleJournal of diabetes and its complications2018
Psoas and paraspinous muscle index as a predictor of mortality in African American men with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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- MRI paraspinous skeletal muscle enhancement: A potential imaging biomarker for assessing clinical liver cirrhosis severity.PloS one · 2024Article
- Clinical parameters correlated with the psoas muscle index in Japanese individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Diabetology international · 2023Article
- Weight Change, Lifestyle, and Mortality in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2022Observational
- Muscle Mass Assessed by the D3-Creatine Dilution Method and Incident Self-reported Disability and Mortality in a Prospective Observational Study of Community-Dwelling Older Men.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2021Observational
- Muscle area and density and risk of all-cause mortality: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.Metabolism: clinical and experimental · 2020Article
- Myosteatosis in the Context of Skeletal Muscle Function Deficit: An Interdisciplinary Workshop at the National Institute on Aging.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Review
- Machine Learning for Automatic Paraspinous Muscle Area and Attenuation Measures on Low-Dose Chest CT Scans.Academic radiology · 2019Article
- Opportunistic Measurement of Skeletal Muscle Size and Muscle Attenuation on Computed Tomography Predicts 1-Year Mortality in Medicare Patients.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2019Article
- Psoas and Paraspinous Muscle Measurements on Computed Tomography Predict Mortality in European Americans with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.The Journal of frailty & aging · 2019Observational
- Neck Muscle Changes Following Long-Duration Spaceflight.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
- Opportunistic Screening for Osteoporosis Using Computed Tomography: State of the Art and Argument for Paradigm Shift.Current rheumatology reports · 2018Review
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Abstract
aimRecent studies revealed a correlation between skeletal muscle mass index and density with longevity; these studies largely evaluated appendicular skeletal muscles in older Caucasians. This retrospective cohort study assessed the association between axial skeletal muscles size and density with survival in African Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
methodsPsoas and paraspinous muscle mass index (cross sectional area/height
resultsAfter median of 7.1(5.9, 8.2) years follow-up, 30(9.6%) of women and 49(19.1%) of men were deceased. In fully-adjusted models, psoas muscle mass index and paraspinous muscle mass index were inversely associated with mortality in men (psoas muscle mass index, hazard ratio [HR] = 0.61, P = 0.004; paraspinous muscle mass index, HR = 0.64, P = 0.004), but not in women. Psoas and paraspinous muscle densities did not associate with all-cause mortality. A penalized Cox regression that involved all covariates and predictors associated with mortality showed that only paraspinous muscle mass index remained a significant predictor of mortality (HR = 0.65, P = 0.02).
conclusionIndependent from established risk factors for mortality, higher psoas and paraspinous muscle index associate with reduced all-cause mortality in middle-aged African American men with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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