Trial reportScientific reports2021
A cross-sectional study about the relationship between physical activity and sarcopenia in Taiwanese older adults.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
- The prevalence of sarcopenia and risk factors in the older adult in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Association between sarcopenia and hemoglobin level: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Association between Alcohol Consumption and the Risk of Sarcopenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Beneficial effects of walking-based home program for improving cardio-respiratory performance and physical activity in sarcopenic older people: a randomized controlled trial.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine · 2022Trial
- Sex differences in the association of physical activity levels and vitamin D with obesity, sarcopenia, and sarcopenic obesity: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2022Trial
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- Physical Activity Types and Sarcopenia Components Among Middle-Aged and Older People: A Cross-Sectional Study.Calcified tissue international · 2026Article
- Long-term effect of physical inactivity on osteosarcopenic obesity - a MRI-based investigation from a population-based cohort.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Observational
- Sex disparity in the association between alcohol consumption and sarcopenia: a population-based study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Alcohol consumption may not be a risk factor for sarcopenia in the older adults.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Limited predictive value of bioelectrical phase angle for the development of sarcopenia in older Europeans.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2024Observational
- OligonolInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Cross-sectional association of physical activity levels with risks of sarcopenia among older Taiwanese adults.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Associations of physical activity intensity, frequency, duration, and volume with the incidence of sarcopenia in middle-aged and older adults: a 4-year longitudinal study in China.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Sex- and age-specific normative values of lower extremity muscle power in Italian community-dwellers.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2024Article
- Prospective associations between changes in physical activity and sedentary time and subsequent lean muscle mass in older English adults: the EPIC-Norfolk cohort study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Prospective changes in anemia are associated with the incidence and persistence of sarcopenia among older Mexican adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
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- Clinical considerations for sarcopenia in older Colombian Afro-descendant and mestizo women.The Journal of international medical research · 2023Article
- Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, and Sarcopenia in Older Chinese Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2023Article
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Abstract
To the best of our knowledge, none of Taiwanese studies on the relationship between physical activity (PA) and sarcopenia by the latest 2019 Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS) cutoff points of sarcopenia has been published. We used the Taiwan version of international physical activity questionnaire-short version and the 2019 AWGS diagnostic criteria of sarcopenia to examine the relationship between PA and sarcopenia in older adults. Volunteers in this cross-sectional study were recruited from those attending senior health checkup program held at a regional hospital in Taipei City from May 2019 to Sep 2019. Muscle strength was assessed by grip strength, physical performance was assessed by usual gait speed on a 6-m course, and muscle mass was measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis. Multiple logistic regression was used to analyze the relationship between PA and sarcopenia. Odds ratios and corresponding 95% confidence intervals were calculated. 565 participants were recruited and data from 500 participants were used. The study participants had a mean age of 73.87 years old, with 47% men and 53% women. 138 (27.6%) participants were classified as having sarcopenia, among which 48 (45.3%) in low PA participants and 90 (22.8%) in moderate to high PA participants. Compared with those with low PA, moderate to high PA protected against the risk of sarcopenia with the odds ratio (OR) 0.46 (95% CI 0.27-0.79, p-value = 0.005). A significant protective effect of PA on sarcopenia was found among the older adults after adjusting for sex, institutionalization, age, BMI, albumin, hemoglobin, HDL-C levels, history of cardiovascular disease, education level and alcohol drinking.
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