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Elevated serum myostatin level is associated with worse survival in patients with liver cirrhosis

BACKGROUND: We aimed to elucidate the relationship between serum myostatin levels and other markers including skeletal muscle mass and to investigate the influence of serum myostatin levels on survival for patients with liver cirrhosis (LC). METHODS: A total of 198 LC subjects were analysed in this...

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Autores principales: Nishikawa, Hiroki, Enomoto, Hirayuki, Ishii, Akio, Iwata, Yoshinori, Miyamoto, Yuho, Ishii, Noriko, Yuri, Yukihisa, Hasegawa, Kunihiro, Nakano, Chikage, Nishimura, Takashi, Yoh, Kazunori, Aizawa, Nobuhiro, Sakai, Yoshiyuki, Ikeda, Naoto, Takashima, Tomoyuki, Takata, Ryo, Iijima, Hiroko, Nishiguchi, Shuhei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5700437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28627027
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12212