Journal article
Diagnostic criteria for sarcopenia and physical performance
AY Bijlsma, CGM Meskers, N Van Den Eshof, RG Westendorp, S Sipilä, L Stenroth, E Sillanpää, JS McPhee, DA Jones, MV Narici, H Gapeyeva, M Pääsuke, T Voit, Y Barnouin, JY Hogrel, G Butler-Browne, AB Maier
Age | SPRINGER | Published : 2014
Abstract
Relative and absolute muscle mass and muscle strength are used as diagnostic criteria for sarcopenia.We aimed to assess which diagnostic criteria are most associated with physical performance in 180 young (18-30 years) and 281 healthy old participants (69-81 years) of the European study MYOAGE. Diagnostic criteria included relative muscle mass (total or appendicular lean mass (ALM) as percentage of body mass), absolute muscle mass (ALM/height squared and total lean mass), knee extension torque, and handgrip strength. Physical performance comprised walking speed, Timed Up and Go test (TUG), and in a subgroup physical fitness. Diagnostic criteria for sarcopenia and physical performance were st..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors thank Prof. Dr. E. Seppet for contributing to the study design; M. van der Bij, T. M. Maden-Wilkinson, and Dr. I. Kull for their support; and E. Klaus, Dr. J. Ereline, Dr. T. Kums, H. Aibast, and C. Levergeois for their skillful technical assistance. This study was supported by an unrestricted grant from the seventh framework program MYOAGE (HEALTH-2007-2.4.5-10), 050-060-810 Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging, Estonian Science Foundation (grant nos. 8736 and 7823), the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (project SF01080114As08), and the Association Francais Contres les Myopathies, INSERM, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, the CNRS.