Author response to Letter to the Editor: MRI-defined sarcopenia predicts mortality in patients with chronic liver disease.
Lucian BeerNina BastatiAhmed Ba-SsalamahMattias MandorferThomas ReibergerPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2021)
We would like to thank Dr. Jin et al. for their interest in our article1 and for sharing their thoughts on our study. As pointed out by Jin [REF; Manuscript ID: LIVint-20-02049] the prevalence of sarcopenia was significantly higher in men than in women both in patients compensated (cACLD) and decompensated ACLD (dACLD). However, in our study, the univariate analysis showed that gender was neither associated with the development of first or further hepatic decompensation, nor with mortality (data not shown).
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