Acute skeletal muscle loss in SARS‐CoV‐2 infection contributes to poor clinical outcomes in COVID‐19 patients

• Main Authors: Amy Attaway (Author), Nicole Welch (Author), Dhweeja Dasarathy (Author), Jocelyn Amaya‐Hughley (Author), Annette Bellar (Author), Michelle Biehl (Author), Siddharth Dugar (Author), Marielle P.K.J. Engelen (Author), Joe Zein (Author), Srinivasan Dasarathy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Chronic disease causes skeletal muscle loss that contributes to morbidity and mortality. There are limited data on the impact of dynamic muscle loss on clinical outcomes in COVID‐19. We hypothesized that acute COVID‐19‐related muscle loss (acute sarcopenia) is associated with adv...