ArticleBMC geriatrics2022
Sarcopenic obesity is associated with frailty among community-dwelling older adults: findings from the WCHAT study.
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- A systematic review of the relationship between body composition including muscle, fat, bone, and body water and frailty in Asian residents.Nagoya journal of medical science · 2025Pooled it
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- Transcriptomic analysis demonstrates moderators of muscle quality are altered in age-related sarcopenic obesity.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Sarcopenic obesity is linked to worse clinical outcomes than sarcopenia or obesity alone in hospitalized older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Differential brain volume between obese and underweight cognitively normal older adults with frailty in the JPSC-AD.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Relationship between masticatory function and sarcopenic obesity in community-dwelling older adults aged 75 or older: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
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- A Neglected Point: Frailty in Older Adults with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.Endocrinology and metabolism (Seoul, Korea) · 2024Article
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- Association of the dietary inflammatory index with sarcopenic obesity and frailty in older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Sarcopenic obesity and pre-sarcopenia contribute to frailty in community-dwelling Italian older people: data from the FRASNET study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Sarcopenic obesity in older adults: a clinical overview.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2024Review
- Approaching the Sarcopenic Patient with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis-related Cirrhosis.Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2024Review
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Abstract
objectiveUncertainties remain regarding the relationship between sarcopenic obesity and frailty. This study aimed to explore the association of these two common geriatric syndromes among community-dwelling older adults.
methodsBaseline data from the West China Health and Aging Trend (WCHAT) study was used. Sarcopenia was assessed based on the criteria established by the Asian working group for sarcopenia. Body fat percentages above the 60th percentile specified by sex were classified as obesity. Sarcopenic obesity was defined as the concurrence of obesity and sarcopenia. Frailty was assessed by Fried criteria. Multinomial logistic regression was adopted to explore associations of sarcopenic obesity with frailty.
resultsOverall, 2372 older adults (mean age 67.6 ± 5.9) were involved in this study. The prevalence of frailty and sarcopenic obesity was 6.2 and 6.28%, respectively. After adjusting for covariates, sarcopenic obesity was significantly associated with prefrailty (OR = 1.74, 95% CI = 1.15-2.64, P = 0.009) and frailty (OR = 4.42, 95% CI = 2.19-8.93, P < 0.001) compared to nonsarcopenia and nonobesity.
conclusionsSarcopenic obesity was significantly correlated with prefrailty and frailty among older adults. Intervention for sarcopenic obesity may contribute to the prevention of incident frailty.
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