The Predictive Values of Five Sarcopenia Screening Tools on Clinical Outcomes Following Surgery in Patients with Gastric Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The association between strength, assistance with walking, rise from a chair, climb stairs and falls (SARC-F), strength, assistance with walking, rise from a chair, climb stairs, falls and calf circumference (SARC-CalF), Ishii score chart, the short version of mini sarcopenia risk assessment (MSRA-5), the full version of mini sarcopenia risk assessment (MSRA-7) and clinical outcomes in patients with gastric cancer were unclear. We aimed to investigate the predictive values of the above five sarcopenia screening tools on clinical outcomes following surgery in patients with gastric cancer.

Methods

The clinical data of consecutive patients who would undergo gastrectomy from May 2020 to October 2020 at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University were p

SUBMITTER: Lu JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12275541 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature