Assessment of diagnostic performance of handgrip strength in sarcopenia screening and determining optimal cut-offs in inflammatory bowel disease

  1. Andreas Vadarlis
  2. Xenophon Theodoridis
  3. Theofanis Maris
  4. Manousos Pramateftakis
  5. Georgios Germanidis
  6. Michael Chourdakis
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Abstract

Objectives Sarcopenia frequently complicates inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), indicating a poor prognosis. Current diagnostic criteria and handgrip strength (HGS) reference values are often not validated for the IBD population. This study aimed to investigate the utility of HGS as a diagnostic tool for sarcopenia in IBD, examining its association with bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and identifying optimal HGS thresholds for screening.

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  1. Version published to 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8167171/v1 on Research Square