Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle (Dec 2018)
The authors reply: Letter on: “Pitfalls in the measurement of muscle mass: a need for a reference standard” by Clark et al.
- 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 Bruyère,
- 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,
- René Rizzoli,
- Sian Robinson,
- Yves Rolland,
- Ricardo Rueda,
- Bruno Vellas,
- John A. Kanis
Affiliations
- Fanny Buckinx
- Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics University of Liège Liège Belgium
- Francesco Landi
- Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences and Orthopedics Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Rome Milan Italy
- Matteo Cesari
- Gérontopôle University Hospital of Toulouse Toulouse France
- Roger A. Fieding
- Nutrition, Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Laboratory Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University Boston MA USA
- Marjolein Visser
- Department of Health Sciences VU University Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands
- Klaus Engelke
- Institute of Medical Physics University of Erlangen Erlangen Germany
- Stefania Maggi
- National Research Council Neuroscience Institute, Aging Branch Padova Italy
- Elaine Dennison
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit University of Southampton Southampton UK
- Nasser M. Al‐Daghri
- Prince Mutaib Chair for Biomarkers of Osteoporosis, Biochemistry Department, College of Science King Saud University Riyadh 11451 Saudi Arabia
- Sophie Allepaerts
- Department of Geriatrics CHU‐Liège Liège Belgium
- Jurgen Bauer
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Klinikum Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg Germany
- Ivan Bautmans
- Gerontology and Frailty in Ageing Research Department Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Brussels Belgium
- Maria‐Luisa Brandi
- Department of Surgery and Translational Medicine University of Florence Florence 59139 Italy
- Olivier Bruyère
- Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics University of Liège Liège Belgium
- Tommy Cederholm
- Human Medicines Research and Development Support Division Scientific Advice London UK
- Francesca Cerreta
- Human Medicines Research and Development Support Division Scientific Advice London UK
- Antonio Cherubini
- Geriatrics and Geriatric Emergency Care, IRCCS‐INRCA Ancona Italy
- Cyrus Cooper
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit University of Southampton Southampton UK
- Alphonso Cruz‐Jentoft
- Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (Irycis) Madrid Spain
- Eugene McCloskey
- Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases University of Sheffield Sheffield UK
- Bess Dawson‐Hughes
- Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University Boston MA USA
- Jean‐Marc Kaufman
- Department of Endocrinology and Unit for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases Ghent University Hospital Ghent Belgium
- Andrea Laslop
- Scientific Office, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Vienna Austria
- Jean Petermans
- Department of Geriatrics CHU‐Liège Liège Belgium
- Jean‐Yves Reginster
- Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics University of Liège Liège Belgium
- René Rizzoli
- Service of Bone Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine Geneva Switzerland
- Sian Robinson
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit University of Southampton Southampton UK
- Yves Rolland
- Gérontopôle de Toulouse, Institut du Vieillissement, Centre Hospitalo‐Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse); UMR INSERM 1027, University of Toulouse III Toulouse France
- Ricardo Rueda
- Abbott Nutrition R&D Granada Spain
- Bruno Vellas
- Gérontopôle de Toulouse, Institut du Vieillissement, Centre Hospitalo‐Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse); UMR INSERM 1027, University of Toulouse III Toulouse France
- John A. Kanis
- Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases University of Sheffield Sheffield UK
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12387
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 7
pp. 1272 – 1274
Abstract
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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