Sarcopenia: Prevalence and prognostic significance in hospitalized patients

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 772-776

  Gariballa, Salah ^a,b   Alessa, Awad ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute illness; Nutrition; Older people; Outcome; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; HEMOGLOBIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SARCOPENIA;

ACUTE ILLNESS; NUTRITION; OLDER PEOPLE; OUTCOME; SARCOPENIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATIENT READMISSION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84883560700     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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