Serum creatinine/cystatin C ratio as a screening tool for sarcopenia and prognostic indicator for patients with esophageal cancer

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Sarcopenia is associated with poor clinical outcomes of patients who underwent esophagectomy. The current diagnostic criteria for sarcopenia are complex and laborious. We aimed to employ the simple and economic indicator sarcopenia index (SI = creatinine/cystatin C ×100) to sc...

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Autores principales: Zheng, Chao, Wang, Ellen, Li, Jiang-Shan, Xie, Kai, Luo, Chao, Ge, Qi-Yue, Hu, Li-Wen, Shen, Yi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8922862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35287579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-02925-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8922862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35287579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-02925-8

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