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REVIEW article

Front. Nutr.
Sec. Clinical Nutrition
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1475977

Advances in Sarcopenia and Urologic Disorders

Provisionally accepted
Tonglei Zhao Tonglei Zhao 1Weipu Mao Weipu Mao 2,3,4Mingjin Hu Mingjin Hu 4Qingyang Yu Qingyang Yu 1Xinyang Peng Xinyang Peng 1Jie Ji Jie Ji 1Jianguo Qiu Jianguo Qiu 5Jianping Wu Jianping Wu 4*
  • 1 Southeast University, Nanjing, China
  • 2 Department of Urology, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, Liaoning Province, China
  • 3 Surgical Research Center, Institute of Urology, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, Liaoning Province, China
  • 4 Nanjing Lishui District People's Hospital, Nanjing, Liaoning Province, China
  • 5 Lianshui County People’s Hospital, Huai’an, China

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    Sarcopenia is a loss of muscle strength, muscle mass, and function that can increase a patient's risk of injury, illness, and can even severely impair quality of life and increase a patient's risk of death.A growing body of research suggests that sarcopenia and urinary tract disorders are closely related.In this review, we aimed to emphasize the definition of skeletal sarcopenia, summarize the methods used to diagnose skeletal sarcopenia, discuss the advances in the study of sarcopenia in benign diseases of the urinary system, discuss the advances in the study of sarcopenia in malignant diseases of the urinary system. Sarcopenia and urologic diseases interact with each other; urologic diseases cause sarcopenia, and sarcopenia aggravates the condition of the original disease, thus falling into a vicious circle. This review provides a comprehensive understanding of sarcopenia in urologic diseases, which is very important for the management and prognosis of urologic diseases.

    Keywords: Sarcopenia, overactive bladder, polycystic kidney, Bladder cancer, prostate cancer

    Received: 04 Aug 2024; Accepted: 21 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Zhao, Mao, Hu, Yu, Peng, Ji, Qiu and Wu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Jianping Wu, Nanjing Lishui District People's Hospital, Nanjing, Liaoning Province, China

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