Sarcopenia: Revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
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...Of importance, the task force did consider grip strength as a screening tool for sarcopenia, but this was voted out in the consensus process for two main reasons: (i) the new EWGSOP guidelines for sarcopenia [EWGSOP-2 (59)] recommend that grip strength is a diagnostic assessment rather than a screening test; and (ii) the specific feedback we received from the primary care members of our external reviewing group, most of whom stated that they would prefer not to perform grip strength measurement in their primary care clinics....
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...5–5% per year) have been reported [129]....
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...In addition, muscle quality has been assessed by BIA-derived phase angle measurement [93]....
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...For use in practice, tools need to be cost-effective, standardised and repeatable by practitioners in a variety of clinical settings and across different patient populations [78, 93]....
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...by determining infiltration of fat into muscle and using the attenuation of the muscle [54, 93, 105]....
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...Expert groups worldwide have published complementary definitions of sarcopenia [2–4], and researchers have made remarkable strides in understanding muscle and its roles in health and in disease [5, 6]....
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