Performance of the European working group on sarcopenia in older people algorithm in screening older adults for muscle mass assessment

Age and Ageing

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 334-338

  Lourenço, Roberto Alves ^a   Pérez zepeda, Mario ^b   Gutiérrez robledo, Luis ^b   García garcía, Francisco J ^c   Rodríguez mañas, Leocadio ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE GERIATRÍA   (Mexico)

^c HOSPITAL VIRGEN DE LA SALUD   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aged; Clinical utility; Diagnostic tests; Frailty; Gait speed; Handgrip strength; Older people; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPENIA; SCREENING; WALKING SPEED; AGE; AGING; ALGORITHM; BRAZIL; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVALUATION STUDY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HAND STRENGTH; MEXICO; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; SPAIN; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BRAZIL; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SARCOPENIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84925293889     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afu192     Document Type: Article

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