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Muscle Abnormalities in Colorectal Cancer: Exploring the Associations of Muscle Abnormalities with Pre-existing Comorbidities, and Adverse Surgical Outcomes in Non-metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients
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The aim of this project was to further understand the association of pre-existing comorbidities and adverse surgical outcomes with muscle abnormalities in patients with non-metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC). Computerized tomographpy (CT) imaging was used for body composition assessment, and...
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Fall 2016
Adults with class II/III obesity (BMI ≥35 kg/m2) are at increased health risk, and may also present with lower lean mass in relation to excess adiposity, a condition termed sarcopenic obesity. A variety of body composition indices and cutpoints have been used to define this condition, mostly in...