Epidemiology of sarcopenia among community-dwelling older adults in Taiwan: a pooled analysis for a broader adoption of sarcopenia assessments - PubMed

The prevalence of sarcopenia in community-dwelling older adults is comparable with those in other populations. A dose-response relationship exists between sarcopenia stages and functional limitations/disability. The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People consensus definition using thes …分類：pmid:24450561, doi:10.1111/ggi.12193, I-Chien Wu, Cheng-Chieh Lin, CollabAuthor(name='Sarcopenia and Translational Aging Research in Taiwan Team', investigators=[Author(firstnames='Meng-Chih', lastname='Lee', initials='MC', affs=[], is_editor=False, suffix=None, equal_contrib=False), Author(firstnames='Chia-Ing', lastname='Li', initials='CI', affs=[], is_editor=False, suffix=None, equal_contrib=False), Author(firstnames='Ching-I', lastname='Chang', initials='CI', affs=[], is_editor=False, suffix=None, equal_contrib=False), Author(firstnames='Ming-Shiang', lastname='Wu', initials='MS', affs=[], is_editor=False, suffix=None, equal_contrib=False), Author(firstnames='Yi-Fen', lastname='Tsai', initials='YF', affs=[], is_editor=False, suffix=None, equal_contrib=False)], affs=[]), Activities of Daily Living, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging / physiology*, Body Composition, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Gait, Geriatric Assessment*, Humans, Male, Muscle Strength / physiology*, Muscle, Skeletal / physiopathology*, Prevalence, Retrospective Studies, Sarcopenia / epidemiology*, Sarcopenia / physiopathology, Taiwan / epidemiology, PubMed Abstract, NIH, NLM, NCBI, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE...