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Clinical Usefulness of FRAX Score for Predicting Sarcopenia in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease

We investigated the usefulness of the Fracture Risk Assessment tool (FRAX) for predicting sarcopenia in chronic liver disease (CLD). In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated 321 patients with CLD. The FRAX with and without bone mineral density (BMD) was employed to calculate the 10-year risks of...

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Autores principales: Saeki, Chisato, Saito, Mitsuru, Kanai, Tomoya, Nakano, Masanori, Oikawa, Tsunekazu, Torisu, Yuichi, Saruta, Masayuki, Tsubota, Akihito
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8465236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34575191
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184080