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ArticleJournal of diabetes research2022

Additive Effect of Sarcopenia and Anemia on the 10-Year Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Feihui Zeng, Lingning Huang, Yongze Zhang, Xinyu Hong, Suiyan Weng, Ximei Shen, Fengying Zhao, Sunjie Yan

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Article in Journal of diabetes research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Feihui ZengDepartment of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, 20 Cha Zhong Road, Fuzhou, Fujian 350005, China.
Lingning HuangDepartment of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, 20 Cha Zhong Road, Fuzhou, Fujian 350005, China.
Yongze ZhangDepartment of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, 20 Cha Zhong Road, Fuzhou, Fujian 350005, China.
Xinyu HongDepartment of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, 20 Cha Zhong Road, Fuzhou, Fujian 350005, China.
Suiyan WengDepartment of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, 20 Cha Zhong Road, Fuzhou, Fujian 350005, China.
Ximei ShenDepartment of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, 20 Cha Zhong Road, Fuzhou, Fujian 350005, China.
Fengying ZhaoDepartment of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, 20 Cha Zhong Road, Fuzhou, Fujian 350005, China.
Sunjie YanDepartment of Endocrinology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, 20 Cha Zhong Road, Fuzhou, Fujian 350005, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9695-1307
Fujian Medical University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo investigate the association between sarcopenia and anemia and the 10-year cardiovascular disease risk in diabetic patients.

methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted involving 4673 hospitalized patients (2271 men and 2402 women) with type 2 diabetes mellitus, with an average age of 60.66 ± 11.93 years, of whom 542 were followed up for a median follow-up period of 24 months. All participants underwent body composition measurements, and they were grouped by sex and presence of sarcopenia using the Framingham risk model to assess their 10-year cardiovascular risk. According to the changes in the cardiovascular risk during follow-up, the patients were divided into four groups: low-low, low-high, high-low, and high-high.

resultsThe prevalence of anemia was higher in the sarcopenia group than in the nonsarcopenia group (11.5% vs. 24.1% for men,

conclusionSarcopenia is associated with an increased risk of anemia, and the presence of both has an additive effect on the 10-year CVD risk in patients with type 2 diabetes. Loss of muscle mass can independently predict an increased CVD risk in diabetic patients.

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AgedAnemiaBody Mass IndexCardiovascular DiseasesCorrelation of DataCross-Sectional StudiesDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2FemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsSarcopenia

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PMID35111851
PMCPMC8803444
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