Nutrition
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This study aimed to explore factors associated with skeletal muscle radiodensity (SMD) variability in patients with metastatic cancer. ⋯ In this group of patients with metastatic cancer, lower SMD was associated with older age, White race/skin color, and an overall worse clinical condition.
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This study is an assessment of home parenteral nutrition service performance and safety and efficacy outcomes in patients with benign chronic intestinal failure. ⋯ This study confirms the importance of setting up and maintaining structured registries to monitor and improve home parenteral nutrition care. Safety outcomes have improved over the years, most likely due to the underlying efficient nursing service.
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We aimed to screen for the risk of sarcopenia and sarcopenia-related quality of life and associated factors of people living with HIV (PLWH). ⋯ We verified that only 5.9% and 17.3% of PLWH are at risk of sarcopenia and presented lower sarcopenia-related quality of life, respectively. Only the gastrointestinal symptoms were associated with a risk of sarcopenia and lower sarcopenia-related quality of life, without significant differences between age groups.
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Multicenter Study
Body composition radiomic features as a predictor of survival in patients with non-small cellular lung carcinoma: A multicenter retrospective study.
This study combined two novel approaches in oncology patient outcome predictions-body composition and radiomic features analysis. The aim of this study was to validate whether automatically extracted muscle and adipose tissue radiomic features could be used as a predictor of survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. ⋯ Automatically extracted muscle and adipose tissue radiomic features could be used as a predictor of survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
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Sarcopenia is characterized by the loss of muscle mass. Skeletal muscle can produce and secrete different molecules called myokines. Irisin and myostatin are antagonistic myokines, and to our knowledge, no studies of both myokines have been conducted in patients with disease-related malnutrition (DRM). This study aimed to investigate the role of circulating irisin and myostatin in sarcopenia in patients with DRM. ⋯ The present study reported that low levels of serum irisin were closely associated with sarcopenia in patients with DRM.