Rapid screening for sarcopenia.

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.

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.

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Treatment of Diabetes in Older Adults: An Endocrine Society* Clinical Practice Guideline.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2019
   Guideline
2. Validation of the Danish SARC-F in Hospitalized, Geriatric Medical Patients.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2020
   Trial
3. Associations Between Frailty, Sarcopenia, and Nutritional Status in Older Adults Living in Nursing Homes.Nutrients · 2025
   Article
4. Can malnutrition, dietary habits, and diet quality be determinant factors in frailty, sarcopenia, low physical function, and depression in older adults?BMC geriatrics · 2025
   Article
5. The five times sit-to-stand test predicts achievable exercise intensity during stress echocardiography.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2025
   Article
6. Comparison of Muscle, Bone and Fat Indices between Stages of Sarcopenia in Postmenopausal Malaysian Women.The Malaysian journal of medical sciences : MJMS · 2023
   Article
7. Limitations of SARC-F as a Screening Tool for Sarcopenia in Patients on Hemodialysis.Nephron · 2022
   Article
8. Management of Hyperglycemia in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.Drugs & aging · 2022
   Review
9. Impact of Selected Geriatric Syndromes on the Quality of Life in the Population Aged 60 and Older.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
   Article
10. Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Greek Version of the SARC-F for evaluating sarcopenia in Greek older adults.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2020
    Article
11. Association of SARC-F Questionnaire and Mortality in Prevalent Hemodialysis Patients.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
    Article
12. SARC-F as a Useful Tool for Screening Sarcopenia in Elderly Patients with Hip Fractures.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2020
    Article
13. Sarcopenia for predicting mortality among elderly nursing home residents: SARC-F versus SARC-CalF.Medicine · 2019
    Observational
14. Skeletal muscle wasting in chronic heart failure.ESC heart failure · 2018
    Review
15. Time to jump on the bandwagon: the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle in 2018.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2018
    Article
16. Development and validation of a clinically applicable score to classify cachexia stages in advanced cancer patients.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2018
    Article
17. Editorial: Geriatrics in the 21st Century.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2018
    Article
18. Editorial: Defining Undernutrition (Malnutrition) in Older Persons.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2018
    Article
19. Myopenia and precision (P4) medicine.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2017
    Article
20. Casting the net broader to confirm our imaginations: the long road to treating wasting disorders.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2017
    Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

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Abstract

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