Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. In this article I will tell you about how the thickness of a personal "balyk" can predict the life expectancy of older people.
You and I have already discussed fragile old people who better not go to the hospital. For them, any medical intervention can end badly.
Such people are noticed for their weakness. They walk very slowly, cannot get up quickly from a chair and all that. It is clear that they need to be treated with care. If we were talking about a planned hospitalization, then the attending physician would have thought several times and weighed all the pros and cons. Sometimes it is better not to do unnecessary medical procedures for such fragile old people.
But there is not always a choice. It happens that elderly people fall and break something for themselves. Or get into a traffic accident. They are picked up by an ambulance and taken to the hospital.
It is clear that after the accident, everyone will be weak and will not immediately get up from the chair. Even some young people do not get up for a long time after an injury. So how can you find fragile old people among these victims? After all, they will need special treatment and special care.
It turned out that it is possible to assess the fragility of old people by the number of muscles near the spine. Now everyone is doing tomograms right and left. A CT scan of the chest or abdomen usually clearly shows the thickness of the muscles near the spine. A kind of a kind of human balyk. So researchers from the University of Washington decided to test how muscle thickness affects the survival of older people.
In elderly patients, the thickness of the muscles near the spine was measured somewhere between the thoracic and lumbar regions. It turned out that if there is less than a certain amount of meat in that place, then such a grandfather or grandmother is much more likely to die within the next year.
Nowadays, tomograms are done too often, but there is a silver lining, and scientists have proposed to obtain such additional information from these tomograms.
Are you all right with the balyk?
