From sarcopenia to frailty: a road less traveled

نویسندگان

  • John E. Morley
  • Stephan von Haehling
  • Stefan D. Anker
  • Bruno Vellas
چکیده

The physical frailty phenotype consists of fatigue, weight loss, and loss of muscle power. Sarcopenia has been shown to be a major cause of frailty. Six societies including SCWD published a consensus suggesting that all persons older than 70 years of age should be screened for frailty when seeing health professionals. Simple screening tests such as the FRAIL (fatigue, resistance, aerobic, illness, and loss of weight) scale can be used. It is felt that frailty can be treated by exercise (resistance and aerobic), high quality protein, vitamin D, and treatment of the common causes of fatigue. It is expected that this approach will decrease disability in older persons.

متن کامل
منابع مشابه

Common Ground? The Concordance of Sarcopenia and Frailty Definitions.

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore the concordance between definitions of sarcopenia and frailty in a clinically relevant population of geriatric outpatients. DESIGN Data were retrieved from a cross-sectional study. SETTING The study was performed in a geriatric outpatient clinic of a middle-sized teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS The study included 299 geriatric outpatients (mean age 8...

متن کامل

Pharmacological Interventions in Frailty and Sarcopenia: Report by the International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research Task Force.

Sarcopenia and frailty often co-exist and both have physical function impairment as a core component. Yet despite the urgency of the problem, the development of pharmaceutical therapies for sarcopenia and frailty has lagged, in part because of the lack of consensus definitions for the two conditions. A task force of clinical and basic researchers, leaders from the pharmaceutical and nutritional...

متن کامل

Severe osteopenia and osteoporosis, sarcopenia, and frailty status in community-dwelling older women: results from the Women's Health and Aging Study (WHAS) II.

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to examine the associations between severe osteopenia and osteoporosis and/or sarcopenia on frailty status, a major geriatric syndrome in community-dwelling older women. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis. SETTING Women's Health and Aging Studies II (WHAS-II), Baltimore, Maryland. PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREMENTS The analytic sample for this study included ...

متن کامل

Identification of biological markers for better characterization of older subjects with physical frailty and sarcopenia

Population aging is rapidly accelerating worldwide; however, longer life expectancy is not the only public health goal. Indeed, extended lifetime involves maintaining function and the capacity of living independently. Sarcopenia and physical frailty are both highly relevant entities with regards to functionality and autonomy of older adults. The concepts and definitions of frailty and sarcopeni...

متن کامل

Differences in handgrip strength protocols to identify sarcopenia and frailty - a systematic review

BACKGROUND Hand grip strength (HGS) is used for the diagnosis of sarcopenia and frailty. Several factors have been shown to influence HGS values during measurement. Therefore, variations in the protocols used to assess HGS, as part of the diagnosis of sarcopenia and frailty, may lead to the identification of different individuals with low HGS, introducing bias. The aim of this systematic review...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من

ذخیره در منابع من قبلا به منابع من ذحیره شده

{@ msg_add @}


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

متن کامل
عنوان ژورنال:

دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014