PMID: 30146503Aug 28, 2018Paper

Aging-related frailty and sarcopenia. Epidemiology of Frailty and Sarcopenia

Clinical calcium
Atsumu YukiHiroshi Shimokata

Abstract

Frailty and sarcopenia present significant risks for adverse outcomes such as disability, falls, and mortality in Japanese older adults. Among community-dwelling Japanese older adults, the prevalence of frailty, which was characterized using three or more limitations(shrinking, exhaustion, low activity, slowness, and weakness), was 5.2% and 12.0% in men and women, respectively. The prevalence of sarcopenia based on a diagnosis of low appendicular muscle mass, low grip strength, and low gait speed was 9.6% in men and 7.7% in women. Further, the prevalence of frailty with comorbidity of sarcopenia was 21.6% and 52.2% in men and women, respectively, and the prevalence of sarcopenia with comorbidity of frailty was 28.6% and 34.4% in men and women, respectively. The estimated number of prevalent cases of frailty, pre-frailty, and sarcopenia in Japanese older adults was approximately 3,090,000, 17,950,000, and 2,710,000, respectively.

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