Clinical Nutrition: Skeletal muscle density and visceral adipose tissue index are associated with the survival rate of renal cell carcinoma

The nutritional status will affect the quality of life and prognosis of cancer patients , and body composition is also related to the outcome of some cancers
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For example, whether there is a correlation between changes in muscle density and visceral fat in patients with local and metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and the outcome of the disease is still unclear

The nutritional status will affect the quality of life and prognosis of cancer patients , and body composition is also related to the outcome of some cancers

 

To this end, the researchers conducted a population-based historical cohort study that included patients diagnosed with RCC from 2008 to 2012
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The skeletal muscle index (SMI), skeletal muscle density (SMD), visceral adipose tissue index (VATI) and subcutaneous adipose tissue index (SATI) were measured on the CT images of the patient’s third lumbar vertebra (L3)

diagnosis

 

This study included 719 patients with RCC stages I-III (254 (35.
3%) died, 148 (21.
9%) relapsed) and 320 stage IV RCC patients (of which 298 (93.
1%) died)
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The median follow-up time was 6.

statistics

 

This study confirms that higher SMD and higher VATI are associated with better survival rates for RCC patients and may contribute to a better prognosis
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However, more clinical studies are still needed to confirm this

This study confirms that higher SMD and higher VATI are associated with better survival rates for RCC patients and may contribute to a better prognosis

JSF Maurits.

Skeletal muscle radiodensity and visceral adipose tissue index are associated with survival in renal cell cancer – A multicenter population-based cohort study.
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