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Sarcopenia among patients receiving hemodialysis: weighing the evidence

BACKGROUND: There is no consensus on how best to define low muscle mass in patients with end‐stage renal disease. Use of muscle mass normalized to height‐squared has been suggested by geriatric societies but may underestimate sarcopenia, particularly in the setting of excess adiposity. We compared f...

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Autores principales: Kittiskulnam, Piyawan, Carrero, Juan J., Chertow, Glenn M., Kaysen, George A., Delgado, Cynthia, Johansen, Kirsten L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5326818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27897415
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12130