Age-related changes in muscle quality and development of diagnostic cutoff points for myosteatosis in lumbar skeletal muscles measured by CT scan
- Abstract
- Background aims: We have sought to develop proper and useful indices for muscle quality measurements other than muscle attenuation (Hounsfield unit; HU) and to determine the diagnostic cutoff points for myosteatosis by using those indices measured at the L3 lumbar vertebrae level by CT scan. Methods: This cross-sectional analysis included 20,664 healthy adult subjects (12,697 men and 7967 women) who underwent abdominal CT scans. Total abdominal muscle area (TAMA), on the L3 vertebra was demarcated using predetermined thresholds. Intermuscular adipose tissue area (IMAT) and skeletal muscle area (SMA) were measured. SMA was divided into normal attenuation muscle area (NAMA) and low attenuation muscle area (LAMA). Their various indices were calculated. We identified the sexspecific mean values of NAMA, LAMA, IMAT, and their indices and the cutoff points equivalent to the T-scores in the young reference group. Results: The mean values of the NAMA and NAMA indices decreased with age in both sexes, LAMA, IMAT, and their indices showed an increasing tendency with age in both sexes. When using T-score < -2.0 as the cutoff for myosteatosis, the sex-specific cutoff points of NAMA, NAMA/BMI, NAMA/TAMA index, and SMA and TAMA attenuation in men and women were 103.0 and 64.5 cm2, 4.0 and 2.8, 66.4 and 65.1, 40.2 and 39.9 HU, and 34.1 and 33.5 HU, respectively. Using these cutoff points, the prevalence of myosteatosis by NAMA, NAMA/BMI, NAMA/TAMA index, or SMA or TAMA attenuation ranged from 5.9 to 8.8% in men and from 10.2 to 20.5% in women. Conclusions: The NAMA/TAMA index developed in this study was useful for assessing myosteatosis. This is the first study to report the sex-specific diagnostic cutoff points for myosteatosis of trunk muscles based on T-scores measured by CT scans in healthy population. These diagnostic cutoff points may be particularly useful in the treatment and prevention of sarcopenia and myosteatosis. 0 2021 Elsevier Ltd and European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. All rights reserved.
- Author(s)
- 김홍규; 김경원; 김은희; 이민정; 배성진; 고유선; 박태영; 신용빈; 김예지; 최재원
- Issued Date
- 2021
- Type
- Article
- Keyword
- L3 lumbar spine level; Myosteatosis; Skeletal muscle quality.
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.04.017
- URI
- https://oak.ulsan.ac.kr/handle/2021.oak/7449
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- Publisher
- CLINICAL NUTRITION
- Location
- 영국
- Language
- 영어
- ISSN
- 0261-5614
- Citation Volume
- 40
- Citation Number
- 6
- Citation Start Page
- 4022
- Citation End Page
- 4028
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