Analysis reveals muscle-adipose score influences outcomes post liver transplantation, highlighting sex-specific disparities.
Background and aims: Body composition reflects nutritional status and metabolic reserves and predicts the outcome of orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Given the increasing evidence of sex-specific disparities in OLT outcomes, body composition scores that are equally predictive in both sexes are urgently needed. Therefore, we investigated the interplay between muscle and fat composition as well as gender in a multicentric European cohort of patients undergoing OLT.
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