Impact of sarcopenia on long-term mortality and cardiovascular events in patients undergoing hemodialysis.

Conclusions: Sarcopenia was strongly associated with long-term mortality and cardiovascular events in HD patients. Assessment of muscle strength and muscle mass may provide additional prognostic information to survival in patients with end-stage renal disease.
PMID: 29161801 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine - November 23, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Kim JK, Kim SG, Oh JE, Lee YK, Noh JW, Kim HJ, Song YR Tags: Korean J Intern Med Source Type: research