L1 M1 of LDCT for Low Muscle Mass Measurement

Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sarcopenia

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: low dose chest CT(LDCT)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04547478

IRB-107091-E

Details and patient eligibility

About

The first lumbar spine muscle index (L1 MI) on computed tomography (CT) obtained by measuring muscle surface at the first lumbar vertebrae (L1) level is an indicator of total skeletal mass in specific populations. Nevertheless, the utility of L1 MI derived from low dose chest CT (LDCT) in health assessments and relevant cutoff points are unclear.

Enrollment: 3,304 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults older than 20 years who received LDCT in routine health assessments from January to December 2017 were enrolled at a tertiary care hospital (Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan).

Exclusion criteria

• nil