The thresholds for components of sarcopenia: need for an objective approach
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The thresholds for components of sarcopenia: need for an objective approach Gulistan Bahat1 · Mehmet Akif Karan1 Received: 31 August 2020 / Accepted: 20 September 2020 © European Geriatric Medicine Society 2020
Sarcopenia is a geriatric giant that affects the well-being of the older adults significantly, both due to its impact in everyday life and survival, and due to its high prevalence reflecting the great increase in the overall life expectancy through the World. The cut-offs for the components of sarcopenia (i.e., low muscle strength and muscle mass) draws much attention as they would enable its correct and practical diagnosis. In a very recent valuable study, Pal et al. from India reported handgrip strength (HGS) cut-offs as
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