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This study investigates prognostic values of the SMD of abdominal CT images and to verifies its relationship with other variables indicating sarcopenia in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>All 458 patients initiating hemodialysis for maintenance were enrolled in this retrospective study. The sex-specific cut-off values of the SMD and skeletal muscle index (SMI) of L3 level abdominal CT were obtained by drawing the receiver operating characteristic curve for mortality. Cut-offs for identifying low SMD and SMI groups were applied.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The mean age of all patients was 67 years, and 300 (65.6%) patients were male. A total of 204 (44.5%) patients died. In the fully adjusted Cox regression analysis, patients with low SMD had a higher risk of death than those with SMD above the reference cut-off (adjusted hazard ratio (adjHR): 1.805 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.263\u20132.579,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      -value\u2009&lt;\u20090.001). The continuous variable SMD had a prognostic value in the multivariate Cox proportional analysis (adjHR: 0.961, 95% CI: 0.942\u20130.980,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      -value &lt;0.001), while the continuous variable SMI did not have prognostic value after adjustment (adjHR: 1.002, 95% CI: 0.986\u20131.019,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      -value\u2009=\u20090.778). The multivariate regression analysis for SMD with the clinical variable showed that male sex, younger age, lower body mass index (BMI), and higher albumin remained significantly and independently associated with higher SMD. SMD showed an inverse correlation with BMI in contrast to SMI.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec004\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The low SMD assessed by abdominal CT is independently associated with all-cause mortality in patients with advanced CKD initiating hemodialysis. In contrast to SMI, SMD showed a negative correlation with BMI, indicating that SMD might reflect dysfunctional sarcopenia better from perspective of the obesity paradox of CKD in this study population.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0334929","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,4]],"date-time":"2025-11-04T18:24:16Z","timestamp":1762280656000},"page":"e0334929","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Abdominal computed tomography\u2013assessed muscle quality and its prognostic value in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease initiating 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