Associations of Total Body Fat Mass and Skeletal Muscle Index with All-Cause and Cancer-Specific Mortality in Cancer Survivors.

ABSTRACT: Purpose: The importance of body composition on cancer outcomes is of great clinical interest. Measures of body composition that differentiate fat mass from skeletal muscle mass can help redefine our understanding of body composition for cancer survival. We investigated whether the risk of all-cause and cancer-specific mortality differ by levels of total fat mass and sarcopenia status in cancer survivors. Our secondary aim was a subgroup analysis assessing the role of race within these associations. Methods: Participants included 1682 adult cancer survivors who had undergone a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) examination to measure body composition, from the 1999-2006 and 2011-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Total fat mass was categorized

SUBMITTER: Aduse-Poku L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9953880 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature