Left ventricular mass correlates with lean body mass in patients with disease-associated wasting

[...]to skeletal muscles, cardiac myofibrils contain actin and myosin, and mitochondria are largely represented in the heart . [...]cachexia and heart failure may evolve concurrently during disease . Patients unable to give informed consent, with gastrointestinal obstruction or dysphagia, with acute or chronic heart failure, or with history of high blood pressure were excluded. F) 13:1 Age (years) 58.0 ± 20.4 Body weight (kg) 48.6 ± 12.2 BMI 18.7 ± 3.6 Albumin (g/dL) 3.7 ± 0.51 Blood protein level (g/dL) 6.0 ± 1.0 Body weight loss in the previous 6 months (kg) 7.6 ± 8 Handgrip strength (kg) 19.4 ± 7.5 Advanced cancer/chronic renal failure/pneumonia (n) 10/3/1 Correlation between LVM and LBM Our preliminary study shows that in cachectic patients, LVM correlates with LBM and serum creatinine, a recognized maker of muscularity .