Low muscle mass assessed by psoas muscle area is associated with clinical adverse events in elderly patients with heart failure

• Takehiro Funamizu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0400-1815

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• Yuji Nagatomo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: con401@ndmc.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Cardiology, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan

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• Mike Saji,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan

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• Nobuo Iguchi,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroyuki Daida,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tsutomu Yoshikawa

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan

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