Muscle Function Impairment in Crohn’s Disease Patients: Risk Factors and Clinical Implications—Single-Tertiary-Center Experience
Jelena Spiric Milovancevic, Aleksandar Toplicanin, Sasa Vuksanovic, Srdjan Djuranovic, Aleksandra Pavlovic Markovic, Sanja Mazic, Marina Djelic Blagojevic, Aleksandra Sokic-Milutinovic · 2026
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Jelena Spiric Milovancevic and seven co-authors measured muscle function in Crohn's disease patients at one hospital, in this 2026 study. Muscle loss can steer the course of this gut disease, but clinics mostly weigh muscle size, not strength. The team checked grip strength, walking speed, and body makeup in eighty-four patients on the same drug.
Half the patients gripped more weakly than healthy norms for their age and sex, and a third walked slowly, yet almost none met the full bar for sarcopenia. Sex was the strongest predictor of grip strength. Disease spanning both small and large bowel, and lower blood hemoglobin, also pointed to weaker grips. The authors urge early strength checks even when muscle size looks fine.
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| CREATOR | Jelena Spiric Milovancevic, Aleksandar Toplicanin, Sasa Vuksanovic, Srdjan Djuranovic, Aleksandra Pavlovic Markovic, Sanja Mazic, Marina Djelic Blagojevic, Aleksandra Sokic-Milutinovic |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |