• The value of spot urinary creatinine as a marker of muscle wasting in patients with new-onset or worsening heart failure 

      Pandhi, Paloma; Streng, Koen W.; Anker, Stefan D.; Cleland, John G.; Damman, Kevin; Dickstein, Kenneth; Pellicori, Pierpaolo; Lang, Chim C.; Ng, Leong; Samani, Nilesh J.; Zannad, Faiez; Metra, Marco; Rossignol, Patrick; Filippatos, Gerasimos; van Veldhuisen, Dirk J.; Voors, Adriaan A.; ter Maaten, Jozine M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Muscle wasting and unintentional weight loss (cachexia) have been associated with worse outcomes in heart failure (HF), but timely identification of these adverse phenomena is difficult. Spot urinary creatinine ...