Reference values for low muscle mass and myosteatosis using tomographic muscle measurements in living kidney donors

HIGHLIGHTS

• who: Lisa B. Westenberg from the DivisionUniversity Medical have published the research: Reference values for low muscle mass and myosteatosis using tomographic muscle measurements in living kidney donors, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
• what: The authors provide age-, sex-, and BMI-specific reference values for skeletal muscle parameters in a large healthy Caucasian population and correlate SMI with 24-h UCE.

SUMMARY

Living kidney donors need to be relatively healthy (e_g, absence of manifested diabetes_mellitus, major cardiovascular risk factors, recent or active malignancies, chronic/active infection, hypertension with end . . .

 



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