The Authors Reply: Letter On: "Pitfalls in the Measurement of Muscle Mass: a Need for a Reference Standard" by Clark Et Al

Overview

Journal J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle

Date 2019 Jan 31

PMID 30697981

Citations 9

Authors

Fanny Buckinx

Francesco Landi

Matteo Cesari

Roger A Fieding

Marjolein Visser

Klaus Engelke

Stefania Maggi

Elaine Dennison

Nasser M Al-Daghri

Sophie Allepaerts

Jurgen Bauer

Ivan Bautmans

Maria-Luisa Brandi

Olivier Bruyere

Tommy Cederholm

Francesca Cerreta

Antonio Cherubini

Cyrus Cooper

Alphonso Cruz-Jentoft

Eugene McCloskey

Bess Dawson-Hughes

Jean-Marc Kaufman

Andrea Laslop

Jean Petermans

Jean-Yves Reginster

Rene Rizzoli

Sian Robinson

Yves Rolland

Ricardo Rueda

Bruno Vellas

John A Kanis

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Abstract

However, semantics aside, we think that DXA can indeed serve as a reference standard for measuring muscle mass. Obviously, CT and MRI are advanced techniques that can and have been used to obtain important information such as muscle size/volume and more recently amount and distribution of intra- and intermuscular adipose tissue. Also individual muscles can be assessed separately. However, with respect to muscle mass, the comparison of DXA with CT/MRI is rather difficult because DXA and QCT/MRI measure different physical parameters.

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