@article{Ramos-Ramirez_Soto_2020, title={Sarcopenia, in-hospital mortality and prolonged hospital stay in elderly subjects admitted to a Peruvian reference hospital}, volume={37}, url={https://amp.cmp.org.pe/index.php/AMP/article/view/1071}, DOI={10.35663/amp.2020.374.1071}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Objective:</strong> to determine whether sarcopenia is an associated factor to in-hospital mortality and prolonged hospital stay (PHS) in elderly subjects admitted to Hipolito Unanue National Hospital (HUNH) between December 2019 and March 2020. <strong>Materials and methods:</strong> this is an observational prospective cohort study performed in elderly subjects admitted to the Medicine Service in HUNH. Crude and multivariate analysis were performed using Poisson regression, aiming to determine a relationship between sarcopenia and in-hospital mortality and PHS by relative risk (RR). <strong>Results:</strong> nearly half of all patients (49.4%) in the study had sarcopenia, 12.3% died, and 32.5% had PHS. The crude analysis showed an association between sarcopenia and in-hospital mortality (RR: 4.69, 95% CI: 1.62–13.10, p=0.004); nonetheless, when an adjusted analysis was performed, this significance value got lost (p=0.097). No significant association was found between sarcopenia and PHS (p=0.673). <strong>Conclusion:</strong> sarcopenia is a condition affecting a large proportion of hospitalized elderly subjects, and it is associated to a higher risk of dying during hospitalization. There is no association between sarcopenia and PHS.</p&gt;}, number={4}, journal={ACTA MEDICA PERUANA}, author={Ramos-Ramirez, Keyla E. and Soto, Alonso}, year={2020}, month={Dec.} }