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