Sarcopenia for outcomes in patients undergoing spinal surgery: A protocol for a systematic review and pooled analysis of observational studies

• Teng Wan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Teng Wan, Zhihong Xiao

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Spine Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China, Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry, Hengyang Medical College, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

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• Zhihong Xiao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Teng Wan, Zhihong Xiao

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

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• Xitao Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Binhai New Area Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China

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• Haifeng Tan,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Spine Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China, Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry, Hengyang Medical College, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7388-436X

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• Weiming Guo,

  Roles Data curation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

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• Guojun Tang,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

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• Liangyuan Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

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• Zubing Mei ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: herrmayor@163.com (ZM); caoqi69@163.com (QC)

  ¶‡ ZM and QC also contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding author.

  Affiliations Department of Spine Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China, Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, Anorectal Disease Institute of Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5012-957X

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• Qi Cao

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  * E-mail: herrmayor@163.com (ZM); caoqi69@163.com (QC)

  ¶‡ ZM and QC also contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding author.

  Affiliation Department of Spine Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China

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