Sarcopenia in heart failure: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

• Published in: ESC Heart Failure Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 1007 - 1017
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Jia, Ni, Wenqing, Yuan, Xueli, Zhang, Hongmin, Li, Ping, Xu, Jian, Zhao, Zhiguang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.04.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Age; Body composition; Comorbidity; Heart failure; Heart Failure - complications; Heart Failure - epidemiology; Hospitalization; Humans; Meta-analysis; Multimorbidity; Muscle function; Muscle wasting; Older people; Patients; Population; Prevalence; Review; Reviews; Sarcopenia; Sarcopenia - diagnosis; Sarcopenia - epidemiology; Sarcopenia - etiology; Systematic review; Heart failure; Sarcopenia; Muscle wasting; Meta-analysis; Multimorbidity

Aims Sarcopenia has been found to be frequently associated with co‐morbidity among patients with heart failure (HF). However, there remain insufficient data to accurately estimate the global prevalence of sarcopenia in HF. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to conduct a systematic review an...