Prevalence of sarcopenia in community-dwelling older people in the UK using the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) definition: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS)
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..., reduced muscle mass with limited mobility/function) has been associated with frailty, cachexia, and functional disability, leading to worse quality of life and higher mortality rates (8)....
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...Percentage body fat was derived from the average SFT [24]....
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...In the HCS PP sample, body composition was assessed by SFT only [21]....
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...FFM, a proxy for lean muscle mass, was estimated by subtracting fat mass from body weight [24]....
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...Body composition in the HSS was assessed by DXA (Hologic Discovery, software version 12.5) and multisite skin-fold thickness (SFT) measurement....
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...For example, in 883 participants of the New Mexico Elder Study, prevalence increased from 13% to 24% in people under 70 years of age to >50% in persons over 80 years and differed by ethnicity [13]....
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"Prevalence of sarcopenia in communi..." refers result in this paper
...In spite of methodological differences, the prevalence of sarcopenia in our study is broadly comparable with that from similar studies in the literature [14, 26, 31]....
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...A few consensus operational definitions of sarcopenia have been developed based on low muscle mass and gait speed [18, 30], but these have invariably relied on comparison with healthy young reference values....
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...This is evident in studies that have defined sarcopenia as a skeletal muscle mass index and in those that have used anthropometry as a marker of muscle mass [14, 18, 26]....
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...Previous cross-sectional studies in North America and Europe have described a sarcopenia index (muscle mass/ height(2)) and used a cut-off that is two standard deviations (SD) or more lower than a mean derived from a healthy young reference sample [1, 18]....
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