ISSN 1662-4009 (online)

ey0020.7-15 | Long-Term Surveillance for Endocrine Complications in Childhood Cancer Survivors | ESPEYB20

7.15. Frailty and sarcopenia within the earliest national Dutch childhood cancer survivor cohort (DCCSS-LATER): a cross-sectional study

JE van Atteveld , DTC de Winter , VG Pluimakers , M Fiocco , RAJ Nievelstein , MGG Hobbelink , LCM Kremer , MA Grootenhuis , H Maurice-Stam , WJE Tissing , ACH de Vries , JJ Loonen , E van Dulmen-den Broeder , HJH van der Pal , SMF Pluijm , M van der Heiden-van der Loo , AB Versluijs , M Louwerens , D Bresters , HM van Santen , I Hoefer , SAA van den Berg , J den Hartogh , JHJ Hoeijmakers , SJCMM Neggers , MM van den Heuvel-Eibrink , Dutch LATER study group

Brief summary: This cross-sectional study explored the risk factors for pre-frailty, frailty, and sarcopenia in a cohort of Dutch childhood cancer survivors diagnosed between 1963 and 2001.Frailty was defined as the presence of at least two (pre-frailty) or three (frailty) of the following criteria: low appendicular lean mass (low percentage of lean tissue in the limbs assessed by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, DXA), low muscle strength (measured with...