ArticleUnited European gastroenterology journal2019
Mean muscle attenuation correlates with severe acute pancreatitis unlike visceral adipose tissue and subcutaneous adipose tissue.
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- Identification of Biomarkers and Immune-Metabolic Regulators in Acute Pancreatitis and Sarcopenia: A Multi-Modal Transcriptomics Study.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2025Article
- Beyond body mass index: exploring the role of visceral adipose tissue in intensive care unit outcomes.BJA open · 2025Review
- Clinical and imaging predictors for the development of diabetes mellitus following a single episode of acute pancreatitis in youth.Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver · 2025Article
- Myosteatosis predicts the prognosis of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction who undergo emergency percutaneous coronary intervention.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Role and mechanism of myonectin in severe acute pancreatitis: a crosstalk between skeletal muscle and pancreas.Skeletal muscle · 2024Article
- Sarcopenia and Sarcopenic Obesity on Body Composition Analysis is a Significant Predictor of Mortality in Severe Acute Pancreatitis: A Longitudinal Observational Study.World journal of surgery · 2023Observational
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- The Visceral-to-subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Area Ratio Is Associated with Retreatment in Chronic Pancreatitis Patients with Pancreatolithiasis after Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2022Article
- Predicting Severity of Acute Pancreatitis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Review
- Pleuropulmonary pathologies in the early phase of acute pancreatitis correlate with disease severity.PloS one · 2022Article
- UEGWeek: The modern School of Athens.United European gastroenterology journal · 2021Article
- The association of parameters of body composition and laboratory markers with the severity of hypertriglyceridemia-induced pancreatitis.Lipids in health and disease · 2021Article
- Impacts of body composition parameters and liver cirrhosis on the severity of alcoholic acute pancreatitis.PloS one · 2021Article
- Mechanisms of Post-Pancreatitis Diabetes Mellitus and Cystic Fibrosis-Related Diabetes: A Review of Preclinical Studies.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Background: Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a frequent disorder with considerable morbidity and mortality. Obesity has previously been reported to influence disease severity. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the association of adipose and muscle parameters with the severity grade of AP. Methods: In total 454 patients were recruited. The first contrast-enhanced computed tomography of each patient was reviewed for adipose and muscle tissue parameters at L3 level. Associations with disease severity were analysed through logistic regression analysis. The predictive capacity of the parameters was investigated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. Results: No distinct variation was found between the AP severity groups in either adipose tissue parameters (visceral adipose tissue and subcutaneous adipose tissue) or visceral muscle ratio. However, muscle mass and mean muscle attenuation differed significantly with Conclusions: Our results demonstrate that a low muscle attenuation level is associated with an increased risk of severe AP. Future prospective studies will help identify the underlying mechanisms and characterise the influence of body composition parameters on AP.
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