The prevalence and risk factors of sarcopenia in rheumatoid arthritis patients: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis

摘要

Background: Sarcopenia is an ever-increasingly recognized entity in aging or chronically-ill individuals. A recent surge of researches came out on sarcopenia in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the results varied widely. We tried to assess the prevalence of and associated factors with sarcopenia in patients with RA.