Muscle wasting is associated with mortality in patients with cirrhosis.

By A. Montaño-Loza, J. Meza‐Junco, C. Prado, Jessica Lieffers, Vickie E. Baracos, V. Bain, M. Sawyer. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2012

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Sarcopenia is associated with postoperative infection and delayed recovery from colorectal cancer resection surgery (2012, background): “…number, we note that the cutpoints used here (Prado et al, 2008) have subsequently proven to be independent predictors of survival and treatment toxicity in cancer patients (Prado et al, 2009, 2011) as well as independently predictive of survival in cirrhosis patients (Montano-Loza et al, 2012).”
Hepatic encephalopathy in chronic liver disease: 2014 practice guideline by the European Association for the Study of the Liver and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. (2014, background): “Sarcopenia has been proven to be an important negative prognostic indicator in patients with cirrhosis [123,124].”