Background: Age-related body-composition changes are associated with health-related
outcomes in elders. This relation may be explained by inflammation and hemostatic …

Summary Background The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Sarcopenia
Project validated cutpoints for appendicular lean mass (ALM) to identify individuals at risk for …

The aging process is often paralleled by decreases in muscle and increases in fat mass. At
the extreme these two processes lead to a condition known as “sarcopenic …

Background Sarcopenia is a progressive age‐related skeletal muscle disorder associated
with increased likelihood of adverse outcomes. Muscle wasting is often accompanied by an …

Background Aging is associated with body composition changes that include a reduction of
muscle mass or sarcopenia and an increase in visceral obesity. Thus, aging involves a …

Aims Metabolic syndrome (MetS) increases the risk of diabetes mellitus (DM),
cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, and mortality. Sarcopenia has been reported as a …

Aging is associated with inflammatory chronic conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular
disease, insulin resistance, and arthritis. Sarcopenia—muscle loss with aging—is …

Objective: To compare sarcopenic‐obese and obese postmenopausal women for risk
factors predisposing to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and determine whether there may be …

Background Metabolic risk factors can impact sarcopenia, but the direct relationship of
metabolic risk factors with sarcopenia has not been examined. Our purpose was to …

Background Chronic low‐grade inflammation has been suggested as one of the key
elements in the development of sarcopenia, but in contrast to disease‐related loss of muscle …