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ArticleJournal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls2023

Sarcopenia: An Assessment into the Prevalence and Disease Burden in Chronic Pancreatitis Patients.

Taiwo Oyebola, Akash Mavilakandy, James A Stephenson, Ruth Boyce, Neil Bhardwaj, Giuseppe Garcea

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Article in Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 authors.

Taiwo OyebolaLeicester Medical School, Lancaster Rd, Leicester, United Kingdom.
Akash MavilakandyLeicester Medical School, Lancaster Rd, Leicester, United Kingdom.
James A StephensonGastrointestinal Imaging Group, Department of Radiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester General Hospital, United Kingdom.
Ruth BoyceLeicester HPB Unit, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
Neil BhardwajLeicester HPB Unit, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
Giuseppe GarceaLeicester HPB Unit, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: To evaluate the prevalence of sarcopenia in patients referred to a Multidisciplinary Chronic Pancreatitis (CP) Clinic at the University Hospitals of Leicester. Methods: All patients who had undergone CT scans were identified. Controls were identified from CT colonograms with no features of malignancy or pancreatic pathology. The psoas muscle index (PMI) was calculated using the formula: total psoas muscle cross-sectional area at the third lumbar vertebral level (cm Results: 58 CP CT scans were available for analysis along with 62 control scans. 71.9% of CP patients had a PMI below the cut-off for their gender, compared to 45.2% of the controls. The mean PMI (±SD) for male CP patients and male controls were 5.54cm Conclusions: CP patients had a mean PMI below the cut-off value, suggesting that CP patients are largely sarcopenic. As malnutrition is a significant feature of CP, optimisation of nutrition may help to ameliorate sarcopenia in CP patients.

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Chronic PancreatitisFrailtyNutritionSarcopenia

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PMID36873829
PMCPMC9975973

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