ArticleJournal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions2017
Prevalence of sarcopenia in a population of nursing home residents according to their frailty status: results of the SENIOR cohort.
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- Pooled it
- Differences in the Prevalence of Sarcopenia in Community-Dwelling, Nursing Home and Hospitalized Individuals. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2020Pooled it
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- Does Zoledronic Acid Improve Appendicular Lean Mass in Older Women with Osteoporosis? A Sub-Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.The Journal of frailty & aging · 2022Trial
- Frailty and COPD: a bidirectional relationship in the context of systemic and accelerated ageing.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026Review
- Sarcopenia in Hospitalized Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study Comparing Diagnostic Thresholds and Handgrip Strength Measurement Tools.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Epidemiology of sarcopenia: A narrative review.Osteoporosis and sarcopenia · 2025Review
- Feasibility of a Geriatric Assessment to Detect and Quantify Sarcopenia and Physical Functioning in German Nursing Home Residents-A Pilot Study.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Frailty, sarcopenia and health related outcomes among elderly patients in Saudi Arabia.Saudi journal of biological sciences · 2021Article
- Review
- Impact of Sarcopenia and Frailty in a Multicenter Cohort of Polypathological Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
- Skeletal muscle wasting in chronic heart failure.ESC heart failure · 2018Review
- Translation and validation of the Dutch SarQoLJournal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2018Article
- Muscle wasting and sarcopenia in heart failure and beyond: update 2017.ESC heart failure · 2017Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the relationship between frailty and sarcopenia, by evaluating the prevalence of sarcopenia among frail, pre-frail and robust elderly nursing home residents in Belgium.
methodsThis is an analysis of baseline data collected from the SENIOR (Sample of Elderly Nursing home Individuals: an Observational Research) cohort. All subjects received a sarcopenia evaluation, based on the definition proposed by the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP). The frailty evaluation was primarily based on FRIED's definition but also on 9 other operational definitions.
resultsA total of 662 subjects (73.1% of women) were included in this analysis (mean age: 83.2±8.99 years). The prevalence of sarcopenia was 38.1% whereas the prevalence of frail and pre-frail persons was respectively 24.7% and 61.4%. Among frail, pre-frail and robust subjects, respectively 47%, 38.9% and 16.3% were diagnosed sarcopenic. The prevalence of sarcopenia according to ten different operational definitions of frailty ranged between 32.8 % (i.e. Frail scale Status and Frailty Index) and 47% (i.e. Fried definition).
conclusionThis research highlights that over a third of nursing home residents are sarcopenic and the percentage is almost 50% among frail subjects; those latter constitute about 1 in 4 of the population of nursing home residents studied here.
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