Sarcopenia index as a predictor of clinical outcomes among older adult patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cross-sectional study

• Published in: BMC geriatrics 2023-02, Vol.23 (1), p.89-89, Article 89
• Main Authors: Zhao, Xuanna, Su, Ruoxin, Hu, Rongwei, Chen, Yujuan, Xu, Xiaoyong, Yuan, Yalian, Zhang, Jinhong, Zhang, Wenchao, Yang, Yu, Chen, Min, Li, Dongming, Wu, Bin, Huang, Dan, Wu, Dong
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Aged; Aged patients; Aged, 80 and over; Body mass index; Cardiac arrhythmia; Cardiovascular disease; Care and treatment; Chronic illnesses; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Clinical outcomes; Complications and side effects; Congestive heart failure; Creatinine; Cross-Sectional Studies; Cystatin C; Development and progression; Diabetes; Elderly patients; Female; Geriatrics; Health aspects; Heart failure; Hospitals; Humans; Hypertension; Laboratories; Lung diseases; Lung diseases, Obstructive; Male; Measurement; Mechanical ventilation; Medical records; Middle Aged; Mortality; Obstructive lung disease; Older people; Patients; Pneumonia; Pneumonia - complications; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - complications; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - diagnosis; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - epidemiology; Quality of life; R&D; Regression analysis; Research & development; Respiratory failure; Respiratory Insufficiency - diagnosis; Respiratory Insufficiency - epidemiology; Respiratory Insufficiency - therapy; Sarcopenia; Sarcopenia - diagnosis; Sarcopenia - epidemiology; Sarcopenia - therapy; Sarcopenia index; Skeletal muscle; Spirometry; Ventilators
• ISSN: 1471-2318; 1471-2318
• DOI: 10.1186/s12877-023-03784-7

Sarcopenia is a geriatric syndrome with progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and function and has a negative impact on clinical outcomes associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Recently, the sarcopenia index (SI) was developed as a surrogate marker of sarcopenia based upon the serum creatinine to cystatin C ratio. We aimed to assess the value of SI for predicting clinically important outcomes among elderly patients with acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD). This cross-sectional study included elderly patients with AECOPD in China from 2017 to 2021. Clinical data were collected from medical records, and serum creatinine and cystatin C were measured. Outcomes included respiratory failure, heart failure, severe pneumonia, invasive mechanical ventilation, and mortality. Binary logistic regression was used to analyze the association between SI and clinical outcomes. A total of 306 patients (260 men, 46 women, age range 60-88 years) were enrolled in this study. Among the total patients, the incidence of respiratory failure and severe pneumonia was negatively associated with SI values. After adjusting for potential confounding factors, binary logistic regression analyses showed that a higher SI was still independently associated with a lower risk of respiratory failure (odds ratio [OR]: 0.27, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.13-0.56, P