Prevalence of sarcopenia and associated factors in institutionalised older adult patients.

Clinical Nutrition ESPEN
Patricia Bravo-JoséConcepción Navarro

Abstract

Sarcopenia is a syndrome characterised by a progressive and generalised loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength with a risk of adverse outcomes such as physical disability, poor quality of life and death. The main aim of the present study was to establish the prevalence of sarcopenia using EWGSOP-defined criteria in institutionalised older adult patients in long-term care institutions. A secondary purpose was to identify the risk factors that develop Sarcopenia in this population. A Multicentre cross-sectional study was conducted in 334 institutionalised older adult patients, where the prevalence of sarcopenia and its relation with certain risk factors were measured. Physical performance was measured by gait speed, muscle strength measured by a handheld dynamometer and skeletal muscle mass measured using bioimpedance analysis. Different variables were collected: body mass index (BMI), diseases documented in the clinical record, the numbers of falls, the level of activity and functional ability. Two hundred eighty five individuals were included. According the EWGSOP algorithm and the cut-off points proposed by Masanes et al. for the Spanish population, 118 (41.4%) participants presented sarcopenia, of which 32 patients (27%) s...Continue Reading

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