RT Journal Article
T1 Biomarkers and the quadriceps femoris muscle architecture assessed by ultrasound in older adults with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a cross-sectional study
A1 Fuentes-Abolafio, Iván José
A1 Ricci, Michel
A1 Bernal López, María Rosa
A1 Gómez-Huelgas, Ricardo
A1 Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio
A1 Pérez-Belmonte, Luis Miguel
K1 Insuficiencia cardíaca
AB Background: Sarcopenia is an important comorbidity in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). The ultrasound (US) assessment has all the advantages of being used in primary care to assess muscle quantity and quality. Some biomarkers could be indicative of muscle mass loss.Aims: To describe the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the quadriceps femoris assessed by US in older adults with HFpEF and to assess the relationship of the blood and urinary biomarkers, the polypharmacy and comorbidities with US outcomes in older adults with HFpEF.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted. 76 older adults with HFpEF were included. The quadriceps femoris muscle thickness (MT, cm), the subcutaneous fat tissue thickness (FT, cm), the muscle echo intensity (MEI) and the subcutaneous fat tissue echo intensity (FEI) were assessed by US in a non-contraction (non-con) and contraction (con) situations. Polypharmacy, comorbidities, blood and urine biomarkers were also collected.Results: The carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA-125), the folic acid and the urine creatinine shared the 86.6% variance in the non-con MT, adjusted by age, sex and body mass index (BMI). The folic acid shared the 38.5% of the variance in the con MT, adjusted by age, sex and BMI. The glycosylated haemoglobin explained the 39.6% variance in the non-con MEI, adjusted by age, sex and BMI. The chlorine (Cl−) explained the 40.2% of the variance in the non-con FT, adjusted by age, sex and BMI. The polypharmacy and the folic acid explained the 37.9% of variance in the non-con FEI, while the polypharmacy and the thyrotropin (TSH) shared the 44.4% of variance in the con FEI, both adjusted by age, sex and BMI. No comorbidities, polypharmacy, or blood and urinary biomarkers could explain the con MEI and the con FT variance.Conclusions: (...)
PB Springer
YR 2022
FD 2022-08-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/25101
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/25101
LA spa
NO Fuentes-Abolafio, I.J., Ricci, M., Bernal-López, M.R. et al. Biomarkers and the quadriceps femoris muscle architecture assessed by ultrasound in older adults with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a cross-sectional study. Aging Clin Exp Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-022-02189-7
NO Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA. This work was supported by the Spanish Foundation of Internal Medicine, through the call “PROF. DR. MIGUEL VILARDELL 2019 research project”. Grant number: FEMI-PB-PI-MV-2019.
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