Sarcopenia and frailty are highly prevalent conditions in older hospitalized patients, which
are associated with a myriad of adverse clinical outcomes. This paper, prepared by a …

Objectives: Despite a rising clinical and research profile, there is limited information about
how frailty and sarcopenia are diagnosed and managed in clinical practice. Our objective …

Background Data on prevalence of sarcopenia and its associated parameters in
hospitalized geriatric patients are heterogeneous due to various definitions of the disease …

Objective The task force of the International Conference of Frailty and Sarcopenia Research
(ICFSR) developed these clinical practice guidelines to overview the current evidence-base …

Background Sarcopenia is a significant geriatric syndrome with both health care expenditure
and personal burden. Most recently, the European Working Group in Sarcopenia in Older …

Abstract The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP)
developed a practical clinical definition and consensus diagnostic criteria for age-related …

Sarcopenia is a disease related to accelerated loss of skeletal muscle and subsequent
decline in functional capacity. It affects approximately 13% of the world's population aged …

Objectives The objectives of this study were to compare the performance of different
diagnoses of sarcopenia using European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People …

Sarcopenia is currently understood as an organ insufficiency. However, the distinction of
acute and chronic sarcopenia as different categories, which makes sense in this conceptual …

Background Globally there are several operational definitions for sarcopenia, complicating
clinical and research applications. Objective The objective of the Australian and New …