Handgrip strength values depend on tumor entity and predict 180-day mortality in malnourished cancer patients
Tribolet, P.; Kägi-Braun, N.; Gressies, C.; Baumgartner, A.; Wagner, K.; Stanga, Z.; Schuetz, P. · Aktuelle Ernährungsmedizin · 2022 · Heft 3 · S. 1 bis 1
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Zusammenfassung
Cancer-related malnutrition is a prevalent condition associated with loss of muscle mass and impaired functional status, which leads to immunodeficiency, impaired quality of life and worse clinical outcome. Handgrip strength (HGS) has been proposed as an easy-to-use tool to assess muscle strength in clinical practice. However, HGS reference values from healthy people are used to assess functional capacity, while population-specific reference values still need to be defined. Herein, we determined sex specific HGS values stratified by age and tumor entity. Additionally we examined the association between HGS and 1…
