ArticlePakistan journal of medical sciences
Effect of low skeletal muscle mass on long-term mortality after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: A meta-analysis.
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- Impact of Sarcopenia on outcomes of pulmonary embolism: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2026Review
- The association between CT-assessed sarcopenic overweight, obesity and rupture abdominal aortic aneurysm: a cross-sectional analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Integrated Ultra-Wideband Microwave System to Measure Composition Ratio Between Fat and Muscle in Multi-Species Tissue Types.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The association between nutritional assessment tools and CT-assessed sarcopenia in abdominal aortic aneurysm: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- The role of CT-assessed sarcopenia and visceral adipose tissue in predicting long-term survival in patients undergoing elective endovascular infrarenal aortic repair.The British journal of radiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objective: This meta-analysis was designed to assess if pre-operative low skeletal muscle mass impacts mortality rates of patients undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. Methods: Datasets of PubMed, CENTRAL, ScienceDirect, Embase, and Google Scholar were searched from 1 Results: Fifteen studies with 3776 patients were included. Meta-analysis showed a statistically significant increased risk of all-cause mortality in patients with low skeletal muscle mass (HR: 2.07 95% CI: 1.56, 2.74 I2=65% p<0.00001) as compared to normal muscle mass patients. Pooled data indicated that low skeletal muscle mass was associated with statistically significant increased risk of mortality in studies on endovascular repair (HR: 2.86 95% CI: 1.95, 4.20 I2=58% p<0.00001) as well as those including a mixed group of patients (HR: 1.39 95% CI: 1.06, 1.82 I2=31% p=0.02). Conclusion: Low skeletal muscle mass in AAA patients undergoing surgical repair is associated with increased risk of long-term mortality. Current evidence is limited by the retrospective nature of data and variability in defining and measuring low skeletal muscle mass. There is a need for future prospective studies defining the optimal cut-off of low skeletal muscle mass in different populations.
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