Association of Brain Atrophy and Masseter Sarcopenia With 1-Year Mortality in Older Trauma Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Older adults are disproportionately affected by trauma and accounted for 47% of trauma fatalities in 2016. In many populations and disease processes, described risk factors for poor clinical outcomes include sarcopenia and brain atrophy, but these remain to be fully characterized in older trauma patients. Sarcopenia and brain atrophy may be opportunistically evaluated via head computed tomography, which is often performed during the initial trauma evaluation.

Objective

To investigate the association of masseter sarcopenia and brain atrophy with 1-year mortality among trauma patients older than 65 years by using opportunistic computed tomography imaging.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study was conducted in a level 1 trauma cente

SUBMITTER: Tanabe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6506900 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature