A New Equation to Estimate Muscle Mass from Creatinine and Cystatin C.

With evaluation for physical performance, measuring muscle mass is an important step in detecting sarcopenia. However, there are no methods to estimate muscle mass from blood sampling.To develop a new equation to estimate total-body muscle mass with serum creatinine and cystatin C level, we designed...

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Main Authors: Sun-wook Kim, Hee-Won Jung, Cheol-Ho Kim, Kwang-il Kim, Ho Jun Chin, Hajeong Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4744004?pdf=render