Application of z-score-based quantification of muscle echogenicity for the diagnosis of sarcopenia in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Geriatr Gerontol Int. 2022 Dec;22(12):1055-1057. doi: 10.1111/ggi.14507. Epub 2022 Nov 8.

Authors

Takeshi Yoshida^{1

2}, Yoshitaka Kumon¹, Naoko Takamatsu², Taiki Nozaki³, Masataka Inoue⁴, Jemima Albayda⁵, Yuishin Izumi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Rheumatology, Chikamori Hospital, Kochi, Japan.
² Department of Neurology, Tokushima University School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan.
³ Department of Radiology, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ School of Nursing, Hyogo Medical University, Hyogo, Japan.
⁵ School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

PMID: 36347628
DOI: 10.1111/ggi.14507

No abstract available

Keywords: rheumatoid arthritis; sarcopenia; skeletal muscle; ultrasound; z-score.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Arthritis, Rheumatoid* / complications
Arthritis, Rheumatoid* / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Muscle, Skeletal / diagnostic imaging
Muscle, Skeletal / physiology
Sarcopenia* / diagnostic imaging
Ultrasonography