Association of Brain Atrophy and Masseter Sarcopenia With 1-Year Mortality in Older Trauma Patients | Zendy

Christopher Tanabe | Zendy; May J. Reed | Zendy; Tam N. Pham | Zendy; Kevin Penn | Zendy; Itay Bentov | Zendy; Stephen J. Kaplan | Zendy

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Association of Brain Atrophy and Masseter Sarcopenia With 1-Year Mortality in Older Trauma Patients

Author(s) -

Christopher Tanabe,

May J. Reed,

Tam N. Pham,

Kevin Penn,

Itay Bentov,

Stephen J. Kaplan

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

jama surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.757

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 2168-6262

pISSN - 2168-6254

DOI - 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.0988

Subject(s) - medicine , sarcopenia , atrophy , masseter muscle , brain trauma , traumatic brain injury , dentistry , psychiatry

Older adults are disproportionately affected by trauma and accounted for 47% of trauma fatalities in 2016. In many populations and disease processes, described risk factors for poor clinical outcomes include sarcopenia and brain atrophy, but these remain to be fully characterized in older trauma patients. Sarcopenia and brain atrophy may be opportunistically evaluated via head computed tomography, which is often performed during the initial trauma evaluation.

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