Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Hepatocellular Carcinoma Diagnosis: Results from a Single Turkey Center Study.

Background And Aims: Currently malignancies of the liver are the sixth most frequently diagnosed cancers worldwide. The admission of patients to hospitals decreased due to the restriction of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVİD-19) pandemic, especially patients suspected with cancer were delayed in their diagnosis and treatment. With this study, we aimed to investigate whether the Covid-19 pandemic caused a decrease in the number of hepatocellular cancers (HCC) or a delay in its diagnosis.

Is increased neutrophil lymphocyte ratio remarking the inflammation in sarcopenia?

Objectives: Increasing data suggests that chronic inflammation has an essential role on development of muscle dysfunction and progression of sarcopenia in aging population. The aim of the present study was to compare Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) levels in sarcopenic and non-sarcopenic individuals and to present the correlation between NLR and other inflammatory markers.

Methods: A total of 105 subjects with sarcopenia (male/female: 54/51, mean age 72.

Health-related quality of life and fall risk associated with age-related body composition changes; sarcopenia, obesity and sarcopenic obesity.

Background: Sarcopenia, obesity, and sarcopenic obesity are various features of the ageing process that can cause important health issues. The present study was undertaken to investigate the interrelationship between those body composition changes, including their clinical components and the quality-of-life variables.

Methods: A total of 423 individuals aged 65 years or older was included in this cross-sectional study.