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The relationship between the psoas muscle mass index and postoperative complications in Crohn's Disease : A retrospective cohort study
2024-07-12
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background:</bold> Sarcopenia is generally defined based on the age-related muscle mass and weakness. However, it has been reported that patients with Crohn’s disease, who develop severe inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, are more likely to develop sarcopenia. We retrospectively investigated the effect of the iliopsoas muscle area, which is an indicator of sarcopenia, on...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8f7870de-7d4b-5876-b4e1-56452dc4502a
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4603078/v1
