Letter: the improvement of sarcopenia after TIPSS might result from the survivor bias-authors' reply

Florent Artru^{1

2

3}, Julien Labreuche⁴, Alain Duhamel⁴, Alexandre Louvet^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Service des maladies de l'appareil digestif, Hôpital Claude Huriez, CHU Lille, Lille, France.
² Université de Lille/Inserm/CHU de Lille, U995 - LIRIC - Lille Inflammation Research Center, Lille, France.
³ Service de gastroentérologie et d'hépatologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Suisse.
⁴ Département de biostatistiques, CHU Lille, Lille, France.

Comment

Florent Artru et al. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;53(5):677-678.

doi: 10.1111/apt.16274.

Florent Artru^{1

2

3}, Julien Labreuche⁴, Alain Duhamel⁴, Alexandre Louvet^{1

2}

¹ Service des maladies de l'appareil digestif, Hôpital Claude Huriez, CHU Lille, Lille, France.
² Université de Lille/Inserm/CHU de Lille, U995 - LIRIC - Lille Inflammation Research Center, Lille, France.
³ Service de gastroentérologie et d'hépatologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Suisse.
⁴ Département de biostatistiques, CHU Lille, Lille, France.

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