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Low muscle mass assessed by psoas muscle area is associated with clinical adverse events in elderly patients with heart failure

BACKGROUND: Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is a growing healthcare burden with increasing prevalence and comorbidities due to progressive aging society. Accumulating evidence suggest that low skeletal muscle mass has a negative impact on clinical outcome in elderly adult population. We sou...

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Autores principales: Funamizu, Takehiro, Nagatomo, Yuji, Saji, Mike, Iguchi, Nobuo, Daida, Hiroyuki, Yoshikawa, Tsutomu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7886171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33592068
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247140