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Serum carnitine as a biomarker of sarcopenia and nutritional status in preoperative gastrointestinal cancer patients

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2021

Year

Akihiko Takagi, Philip Hawke, Satoshi Tokuda, Takeo Toda, Kazuya Higashizono, Erina Nagai, Masaya Watanabe, Eiji Nakatani, Hideyuki Kanemoto, Noriyuki Oba
Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle

Abstract

This study suggests that carnitine level is a biomarker of sarcopenia and nutritional status. However, it did not find an association between carnitine level and postoperative complications.

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