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An retrospective study of 58 CD patients diagnosed histologically and imagiologically at the Hospital de Braga between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2017. In order to obtain the Skeletal Muscle Index (SMI), it was calculated the muscle area at L3 level, from computed tomography. The t-test was used for independent samples, Mann-Whitney test, chi-square test and Fisher\u2019s exact test for comparison between groups with and without sarcopenia. Sarcopenia prevalence was 41.4% (24 patients). Patients with sarcopenia presented a muscle area with a mean value of 119.88 cm2 (\u00b128.10), significantly lower than that of the group of patients without sarcopenia (t(56) = 2.191, p = 0.033, d = 0.60), and values of SMI with median 42.86 cm2\/m2, significantly lower than patients without sarcopenia (t(56) = 2.815, p = 0.007, d = 0.08). Regarding postoperative complications, significant differences were observed between the two groups (p = 0.000). 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