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Presence of dynapenia and association with anthropometric variables in cancer patients.

Ana Beatriz RechinelliIsabele Lessa MarquesEduarda Cristina Rodrigues de Morais VianaIsadora da Silva OliveiraVanusa Felício de SouzaGlenda Blaser PetarliJose Luiz Marques RochaValdete Regina Guandalini
Published in: BMC cancer (2020)
In this study we confirmed that dynapenia was present in cancer patients, being associated with APMT of the dominant hand and low weight. HSG was proven to be a reliable and complementary measure to be added to the process of assessing nutritional status, contributing to the nutritional diagnosis of these patients and to the detection of early muscle depletion.
Keyphrases
  • end stage renal disease
  • ejection fraction
  • chronic kidney disease
  • newly diagnosed
  • body mass index
  • skeletal muscle
  • physical activity
  • weight loss
  • weight gain
  • patient reported