Jihene Bergaoui, Imed Latiri, Houda Chaouch, Jihene Ben Abdallah, Sawssen Mrad, Wided Maatamri, Amel Letaief, Helmi Ben Saad
Early detection of alteration of muscle strength, quantity, and quality, and sarcopenia is useful in non-cirrhotic chronic hepatitis B (NC-CHB) patients. Studies, which explored the handgrip strength (HGS) are scarce with questionable results, and no previous case-control study explored the presence of sarcopenia.The aim of this study was to assess the muscle strength [i.e.; HGS absolute (HGSA ), HGSA /body mass index (BMI)], muscle quantity [i.e.; appendicular skeletal muscle (ASM), ASM/height2 , ASM/total body weight (TBW), ASM/BMI], and muscle quality [i...
December 2023: Libyan Journal of Medicine