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Table 2 Sarcopenia definition, assessment and prevalence

From: CT-assessed sarcopenia is a predictive factor for both long-term and short-term outcomes in gastrointestinal oncology patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

No

Modality

Index

Cut-off, Male

Cut-off, Female

Method

Prevalence

Reference

Country

NOS

1

CT/L3

SMI

32.5

28.6

Cut-off from 3-year overall survival

16.1%

Zheng, Z. 2017

China

7

2

CT/L3

SMI

36

29

Cut-off from Iritani et al.

3.4%

Nishigori, T. 2018

Japan

7

12.5%

Wang, S. 2016

China

7

12.0%

Huang, D. 2015

China

8

3

CT/L3

SMI

40.8

34.9

Cut-off from Zhuang et al.

15.4%

Zhang, Y. 2019

China

7

19.7%

Zhang, W. 2018

China

6

17.5%

Nishigori, T. 2018

Japan

7

19.4%

Mao, C. 2018

China

6

15.5%

Lin, J. 2018

China

5

24.5%

Chen, W. 2018

China

7

28.8%

Zhou, C. 2017

China

7

6.8%

Lou, N. 2017

China

7

37.4%

Huang, D. 2017

China

7

41.5%

Zhuang, C. 2016

China

8

30.1%

Huang, D. 2016

China

7

24.7%

Chen, F. 2016

China

6

4

CT/L3

SMI

43.2

34.6

Cut-off from Sakurai et al.

22.0%

Nishigori, T. 2018

Japan

7

25.0%

Sakurai, K. 2017

Japan

8

5

CT/L3

SMI

44.5

36.5

Cut-off from the third quartile cases

25.8%

Harada, K. 2016

Japan

6

6

CT/L3

SMI

45

33.8

Cut-off from the third quartile cases

25.7%

Takeda, Y. 2018

Japan

7

7

CT/L3

SMI

47.2

36.9

Cut-off from the median of SMI

49.9%

Nakashima, Y. 2018

Japan

8

8

CT/L3

SMI

49

31

Cut-off from Kim et al.

38.5%

Park, S. 2018

Korea

6

9

CT/L3

SMI

49.5

42.1

Cut-off from the third quartile cases

25.0%

Miyamoto, Y. 2015

Japan

7

10

CT/L3

SMI

52.4

38.9

Cut-off from Prado et al.

14.6%

Yang, J. 2019

China

6

35.7%

O’Brien, S. 2018

Ireland

7

64.4%

Nishigori, T. 2018

Japan

7

7.4%

Guinan, E. 2018

Ireland

4

39.4%

Choi, M. 2018

Korea

7

39.8%

Choi, M. 2018

Korea

6

71.8%

Beuran, M. 2018

Romania

5

83.3%

Mayanagi, S. 2017

Japan

7

23.7%

Elliott, J. 2017

Ireland

6

74.9%

Nishigori, T. 2016

Japan

7

60.2%

Malietzis, G. 2016

UK

7

45.0%

Grotenhuis, B. 2016

Netherlands

8

43.1%

Anandavadivelan, P. 2016

Swede

5

47.7%

Reisinger, K. 2015

Netherlands

6

25.7%

Yip, C. 2014

UK

5

38.9%

Lieffers, J. 2012

Canada

7

2.1%

Awad, S. 2012

UK

4

49.4%

Tan, B. 2015

UK

5

 

Sugiyama, K. 2018

Japan

5

11

CT/L3

SMI

55.4

38.9

Cut-off from Prado et al.

70.6%

Barret, M. 2014

France

5

12

CT/L3

SMI

55

39

Cut-off from Voron et al.

57.3%

Nipp, R. 2018

USA

4

38.5%

Paireder, M. 2017

Austria

8

65.0%

Tamandl, D. 2016

Austria

7

13

CT/L3

SMI

43/53 (BMI lower or higher than 25)

41

Cut-off from Martin et al.

27.5%

Hopkins, J. 2019

Canada

7

50.5%

van Vugt, J. 2018

Netherlands

8

52.4%

van der Kroft, G. 2018

Netherlands

6

14.7%

Souza, B. 2018

Brazil

4

32.4%

Park, H. 2018

Korea

6

42.9%

Nishigori, T. 2018

Japan

7

24.3%

Mosk, C. 2018

Netherlands

6

34.5%

Mauricio, S. 2018

Brazil

7

38.0%

Kurk, S. 2018

Netherlands

4

23.4%

Palmela, C. 2017

Portugal

4

28.4%

Kudou, K. 2017

Japan

8

21.3%

Black, D. 2017

UK

7

23.9%

Black, D. 2017

UK

7

40.2%

Chemama, S. 2016

France

6

56.7%

Blauwhoff-Buskermolen, S. 2016

Netherlands

6

56.6%

Tegels, J. 2015

Netherlands

6

27.4%

Pedziwiatr, M. 2016

Poland

7

69.8%

Hayashi, N. 2016

Japan

6

14

CT/L3

SMI

52/54 (BMI lower or higher than 30)

38/47 (BMI lower or higher than 30)

Cut-off from Caan et al.

45.9%

Feliciano, E. 2017

USA

6

15

CT/L3

SMI

–

–

z-score below - 0.5 for SMI in different ages

6.7%

Martin, L. 2018

Canada

6

16

CT/L3

TPA

538

346

normal TPA in the lowest sex-specific quartile

33.3%

Ouchi, A. 2016

Japan

6

17

CT/L3

TPA

545

385

Cut-off from Fearon et al.

29.3%

Mirkin, K. 2017

USA

5

15.0%

Jones, K. 2015

UK

4

18

CT

VEV

1.92

1.92

Cut-off from the quartiles

25.0%

Park, B. 2015

Korea

5

19

CT

VFA

100

100

Cut-off from the Japanese Society for study of Obesity

35.9%

Wang, S. 2018

China

7

65.3%

Takeuchi, M. 2016

Japan

6

40.5%

Heus, C. 2016

Netherlands

4

  1. Abbreviation: CT/L3 the third lumbar vertebra level in CT scan, BMI body mass index, SMI skeletal muscle index, TPA total psoas muscle area, VEV visceral fat volume, VFA visceral fat area