Handgrip strength cut-offs to define sarcopenia in Turkish population
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Handgrip strength cut‑offs to define sarcopenia in Turkish population Gulistan Bahat1 · Mustafa Altinkaynak2 · Mehmet Akif Karan1 Received: 28 July 2020 / Accepted: 31 August 2020 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Sarcopenia is defined as a progressive and generalized skeletal muscle disorder with adverse consequences as disability and death. To reach a global consensus for its standard definition and diagnosis, most recently, revised EWGSOP consensus (EWGSOP2) has been published [1]. EWGSOP2 put forward sarcopenia as skeletal muscle failure and diminished muscle strength has been emphasized as the key component. Therefore, detection of low muscle strength is of essential for diagnosis of sarcopenia. EWGSOP recommends use of handgrip strength (HGS) due to its practical application and association with the mobility, disability problems associated with sarcopenia. Previously, our group reported the cut-off points for HGS in Turkish population [2] where we calculated the cut-off thresholds for grip strength by using ROC analyses using cut-off values that predicted gait speed
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