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SUBMITTER: Chan KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5884734 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chan Kitty S KS Mourtzakis Marina M Aronson Friedman Lisa L Dinglas Victor D VD Hough Catherine L CL Ely E Wesley EW Morris Peter E PE Hopkins Ramona O RO Needham Dale M DM
European journal of clinical nutrition 20180226 4
Survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) experience severe muscle wasting. Upper arm anthropometrics can provide a quick, non-invasive estimate of muscle status, but its accuracy is unknown. This study examines the accuracy of upper arm percent muscle area (UAMA) with reference measures of lean mass from dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Data are from 120 ARDS survivors participating in a multicenter national study. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, by patient ...[more]