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GuidelineThe journal of nutrition, health & aging2013

Designing pharmaceutical trials for sarcopenia in frail older adults: EU/US Task Force recommendations.

B Vellas, M Pahor, T Manini, D Rooks, J M Guralnik, J Morley, S Studenski, W Evans, C Asbrand, R Fariello and 6 more

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Guideline in The journal of nutrition, health & aging, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Comparative performance of current definitions of sarcopenia against the prospective incidence of falls among community-dwelling seniors age 65 and older.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2015
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  4. Skeletal muscle extracellular matrix remodeling with worsening glycemic control in nonhuman primates.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2021
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  11. Public Health issues in hospital management of Sarcopenic patients.Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls · 2017
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  20. From sarcopenia to frailty: a road less traveled.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 14 institutions in 4 countries.

B VellasUniversity of Toulouse III, Toulouse, France.
M Pahor
T Manini
D Rooks
J M Guralnik
J Morley
S Studenski
W Evans
C Asbrand
R Fariello
S Pereira
Y Rolland
G Abellan van Kan
M Cesari
Wm C Chumlea
R Fielding
Médipole Garonne · FRUniversity of Florida · USAbbott Nutrition (United States)Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging · USNeurotune (Switzerland) · CHNovartis (United States) · USResearch Triangle Park Foundation · USSaint Louis University · USSanofi (Germany) · DEUniversité Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées · FRUniversité Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier · FRUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · USWright State University · US

Funding

University of Florida Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC)P30AG028740 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI CHRISTIAAN LEEUWENBURGH · 2007 to 2026
$22.8M
SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, BLOOD LIPIDS AND SUBSEQUENT OUTCOMER01HD012252 · NICHD · WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CZERWINSKI, STEFAN A. · 1985 to 2014
$17.3M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG028740NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD012252
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An international task force of academic and industry leaders in sarcopenia research met on December 5, 2012 in Orlando, Florida to develop guidelines for designing and executing randomized clinical trials of sarcopenia treatments. The Task Force reviewed results from previous trials in related disease areas to extract lessons relevant to future sarcopenia trials, including practical issues regarding the design and conduct of trials in elderly populations, the definition of appropriate target populations, and the selection of screening tools, outcome measures, and biomarkers. They discussed regulatory issues, the challenges posed by trials of different types of interventions, and the need for standardization and harmonization. The Task Force concluded with recommendations for advancing the field toward better clinical trials.

Indexed as

Frail ElderlyRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicResearch DesignAdvisory CommitteesAgedAged, 80 and overCongresses as TopicEuropean UnionHumansSarcopeniaUnited States

Identifiers

PMID23933872
PMCPMC4077187
OpenAlexW1977946208

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