Muscle Mass Assessed by Computed Tomography at the Third Lumbar Vertebra Predicts Patient Survival in Chronic Kidney Disease
André Valente Bichels, A. C. C. Cordeiro, Carla María Avesani, Fernanda C. Amparo, Juliana Giglio, Nilian Carla Souza, Nivaldo Barroso de Pinho, Celso Amodeo, Juan Jesús Carrero, Bengt Lindholm, Peter Stenvinkel, Maria Ayako Kamimura
Topics & Concepts
MedicineHazard ratioKidney diseaseInternal medicineConfidence intervalProportional hazards modelBody mass indexRenal functionSarcopeniaQuantitative computed tomographyPercentileLumbarCardiologySurgeryOsteoporosisBone densityStatisticsMathematicsDialysis and Renal Disease ManagementParathyroid Disorders and TreatmentsNutrition and Health in Aging