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impairment, and may have value in predicting those, as suggested by the results in chapter 5. Skeletal muscle mass is a relatively easily available parameter from routine pretreatment CT-scans (14). Since this parameter is associated with function loss and considering that it is potentially modifiable, we argue that routine assessment of muscle mass could be of clinical value in this population.