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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Ultrasound Imaging for the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Sarcopenia: An Umbrella Review.

Jia-Chi Wang, Wei-Ting Wu, Ke-Vin Chang, Lan-Rong Chen, Shao-Yu Chi, Murat Kara, Levent Özçakar

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06394648 (Investigation of Sarcopenia and Physical Fitness Levels of Geriatric Individuals Living in Nursing Homes and at Home), which is not on this map. Cited by 33 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT06394648 completednot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

Investigation of Sarcopenia and Physical Fitness Levels of Geriatric Individuals Living in Nursing Homes and at Home

TypeobservationalSponsorHacettepe UniversityRan2024 to 2024Enrolled103ConditionsGeriatric Individuals
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Jia-Chi WangDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 112201, Taiwan.
Wei-Ting WuDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Bei-Hu Branch, Taipei 10845, Taiwan.
Ke-Vin ChangDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Bei-Hu Branch, Taipei 10845, Taiwan.
Lan-Rong ChenDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Bei-Hu Branch, Taipei 10845, Taiwan.
Shao-Yu ChiDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Bei-Hu Branch, Taipei 10845, Taiwan.
Murat KaraDepartment of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara 06100, Turkey.
Levent ÖzçakarDepartment of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara 06100, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0002-2713-4071

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology 109-2314-B-002-114-MY3Ministry of Science and Technology 109-2314-B-002-127Ministry of Science and Technology MOST 106-2314-B-002-180-MY3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is an increasing number of reviews investigating the value of ultrasound (US) in the assessment of aging-related muscle loss. The present umbrella review aimed to systematically investigate the evidence of US imaging in the diagnosis and evaluation of sarcopenia. PubMed, Medline, Embase and Web of Science were searched from their inceptions to 31 October 2021. Systematic reviews and reviews using a systematic strategy for literature search were enrolled. The extracted data were narrated at the level of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. This umbrella review included four articles pertaining to 125 original studies and yielded several important findings. First, US is a reliable and valid imaging tool for the assessment of skeletal muscle mass. Second, among all the US parameters in B-mode, muscle thickness is the most commonly used one, which has good correlation with other standard measurements. Third, although sonoelastography and contrast-enhanced US are promising imaging modalities, their clinical utility is still limited at the current stage. Finally, a future systematic review is warranted to analyze how different ultrasonographic diagnostic criteria influence the prevalence of sarcopenia as well as its adverse health outcomes.

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agingatrophyelastographymuscle massultrasonography

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PMID35054402
PMCPMC8781401

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