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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Sarcopenia and Sarcopenic Obesity and Osteoarthritis: A Discussion among Muscles, Fat, Bones, and Aging.

Maria Spanoudaki, Constantinos Giaginis, Maria Mentzelou, Alexia Bisbinas, Evangelos Solovos, Konstantinos Papadopoulos, Ioannis Paliokas, Christiana Zidrou, Antonis Cheimaras, Maria Hassapidou and 2 more

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

12 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Maria SpanoudakiDepartment of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Constantinos GiaginisDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Environment, University of Aegean, 81400 Myrina, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2878-4831
Maria MentzelouDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Environment, University of Aegean, 81400 Myrina, Greece.
Alexia BisbinasAHEPA Hospital, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Evangelos SolovosA Orthopaedic Clinic, 424 General Military Hospital, 56429 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Konstantinos PapadopoulosA Orthopaedic Clinic, 424 General Military Hospital, 56429 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ioannis PaliokasSchool of Economics and Business Administration, International Hellenic University, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Christiana ZidrouG. Papageorgiou Hospital, 56429 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Antonis CheimarasDepartment of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Maria HassapidouDepartment of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Athanasios N PapadopoulosDepartment of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0644-330X
Sousana K PapadopoulouDepartment of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.
International Hellenic University · GR424 General Military Hospital · GRUniversity of the Aegean · GRAHEPA University Hospital · GRPapageorgiou General Hospital · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aging is a physical procedure for people and nature. Our aging world is expanding because of the life span extension. Aging has a crucial relationship with our body composition (muscles, bones, and adipose tissue), which is characterized by an increase in fat mass and a gradual decrease in muscle mass and strength and bone density. These alterations affect physical performance and impact quality of life enhancing the risk for non-communicable diseases, immobilization, and disability. As far we know, osteoarthritis of lower limbs, sarcopenic obesity, and muscle mass and/or strength loss are treated separately. However, bones, muscles, adipose tissue, and aging appear to have an interconnection through a dialogue as they talk to each other. Health disorders are coming into the surface when this relationship is disrupted. The aim of our study is to search deeper into this interconnection, so that when adipose tissue increases, we have to take a look into the condition of muscle mass, bone, and connective tissue and vice versa, through the assessment of physical performance. Consequently, the triad muscle-bone-adipose tissue disorders by aging should be treated as a single entity.

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functionalitymiddle-aged adultsolder adultsosteoarthritissarcopeniasarcopenic obesity

Identifiers

PMID37374023
PMCPMC10302057
OpenAlexW4378229063

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