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ReviewChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Targeting Sarcopenia as an Objective Clinical Outcome in the Care of Children with Spinal Cord-Related Paralysis: A Clinician's View.

Cristina L Sadowsky

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Review in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Cristina L SadowskyInternational Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4028-7301
Kennedy Krieger Institute · US

Funding

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research CentersP50HD103538 · HUGO W. MOSER RES INST KENNEDY KRIEGER · 2025 to 2025
$1.2M
NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD103538
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Muscle loss is consistently associated with immobility and paralysis and triggers significant metabolic and functional changes. The negative effects of sarcopenia are amplified in children who are in the process of building their muscle mass as part of development. Because muscle mass loss is consistently associated with increased morbidity and mortality throughout life, optimizing the size and health of muscles following a neurologic injury is an objective target for therapeutic interventions. This review hypothesizes that muscle mass correlates with functional outcomes in children with paralysis related to spinal cord-related neurologic deficits. We propose that the measurement of muscle mass in this population can be used as an objective outcome for clinical long-term care. Finally, some practical clinical approaches to improving muscle mass are presented.

Indexed as

childrenfunctionfunctional outcomesmuscle atrophymuscle massparalysispediatric spinal cord injurysarcopeniaspinal cord

Identifiers

PMID37238385
PMCPMC10217275
OpenAlexW4372348505

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