ArticleBMC geriatrics2025
Associations between malnutrition and physical performance, sarcopenia, and frailty in older adults.
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- Nutrition, functional status, polypharmacy, and digestive disturbances in institutionalized patients with dementia: insights from comprehensive screening at admission.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Association between complication risk perception and medical coping strategies in older adults with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Development of a Risk Prediction Model for Preoperative Pre-Frailty in Elderly Patients with Gastric Cancer.Clinical interventions in aging · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe present study examined the associations between malnutrition and physical function, sarcopenia, and frailty in older adults.
methodsThis was a prospective cohort study of octogenarians who lived in the mountain community of the Sirente geographic area in Central Italy. Malnutrition was operationalized according to the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria. Physical performance measures included the short physical performance battery (SPPB) and the isometric handgrip (IHG) test. Sarcopenia was operationalized as the coexistence of dynapenia and low appendicular skeletal mass, while frailty was identified using a modified Fried’s frailty phenotype. Linear regressions were conducted to examine the associations between malnutrition and physical performance tests. Binary regressions were performed to test the associations between malnutrition and both sarcopenia and frailty.
resultsData of 364 older adults (mean age: 86.3 years) were analyzed. Malnutrition was significantly and inversely associated with IHG and walking speed (WS) performance, but not with other physical performance measures. No significant associations were found with sarcopenia or frailty.
conclusionsOur results indicate that malnutrition is significantly associated with impairments in IHG and WS performance, but not with other well-established physical performance tests in octogenarian older adults. These data might be more closely associated with overall health impairments rather than isolated deficits in the neuromuscular system. Moreover, no significant associations were found between malnutrition and the prevalence of sarcopenia or frailty, which might reflect the fact that individuals examined in the present study were in a process of transition.
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