Sarcopenia: A Time for Action. An SCWD Position Paper

• Main Authors: Juergen Bauer (Author), John E. Morley (Author), Annemie M.W.J. Schols (Author), Luigi Ferrucci (Author), Alfonso J. Cruz‐Jentoft (Author), Elsa Dent (Author), Vickie E. Baracos (Author), Jeffrey A. Crawford (Author), Wolfram Doehner (Author), Steven B. Heymsfield (Author), Aminah Jatoi (Author), Kamyar Kalantar‐Zadeh (Author), Mitja Lainscak (Author), Francesco Landi (Author), Alessandro Laviano (Author), Michelangelo Mancuso (Author), Maurizio Muscaritoli (Author), Carla M. Prado (Author), Florian Strasser (Author), Stephan vonHaehling (Author), Andrew J.S. Coats (Author), Stefan D. Anker (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract The term sarcopenia was introduced in 1988. The original definition was a "muscle loss" of the appendicular muscle mass in the older people as measured by dual energy x‐ray absorptiometry (DXA). In 2010, the definition was altered to be low muscle mass together with low muscle fun...