Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia: 2019 Consensus Update on Sarcopenia Diagnosis and Treatment

Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia: 2019 Consensus Update on Sarcopenia Diagnosis and Treatment

Clinical and research interest in sarcopenia has burgeoned internationally, Asia included. The Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS) 2014 consensus defined sarcopenia as “age-related loss of muscle mass, plus low muscle strength, and/or low physical performance” and specified cutoffs for each di...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2020-03, Vol.21 (3), p.300-307.e2
Hauptverfasser: Chen, Liang-Kung, Woo, Jean, Assantachai, Prasert, Auyeung, Tung-Wai, Chou, Ming-Yueh, Iijima, Katsuya, Jang, Hak Chul, Kang, Lin, Kim, Miji, Kim, Sunyoung, Kojima, Taro, Kuzuya, Masafumi, Lee, Jenny S.W., Lee, Sang Yoon, Lee, Wei-Ju, Lee, Yunhwan, Liang, Chih-Kuang, Lim, Jae-Young, Lim, Wee Shiong, Peng, Li-Ning, Sugimoto, Ken, Tanaka, Tomoki, Won, Chang Won, Yamada, Minoru, Zhang, Teimei, Akishita, Masahiro, Arai, Hidenori
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Sprache:eng
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Asia
Asian People
Consensus
criteria
Cross-Sectional Studies
diagnosis
Female
Hand Strength
Humans
Male
Muscle, Skeletal - pathology
physical performance
Sarcopenia
Sarcopenia - diagnosis
Sarcopenia - pathology
Sarcopenia - therapy
skeletal muscle strength and mass
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Zusammenfassung:Clinical and research interest in sarcopenia has burgeoned internationally, Asia included. The Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS) 2014 consensus defined sarcopenia as “age-related loss of muscle mass, plus low muscle strength, and/or low physical performance” and specified cutoffs for each diagnostic component; research in Asia consequently flourished, prompting this update. AWGS 2019 retains the previous definition of sarcopenia but revises the diagnostic algorithm, protocols, and some criteria: low muscle strength is defined as handgrip strength
ISSN:1525-8610
1538-9375
DOI:10.1016/j.jamda.2019.12.012