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http://repositorio.inger.gob.mx/jspui/handle/20.500.12100/17285| Title: | Sarcopenia prevalence |
| metadata.dc.creator: | MARIO ULISES PEREZ ZEPEDA LUIS MIGUEL FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ ROBLEDO VICTORIA EUGENIA ARANGO LOPERA |
| Keywords: | MEDICINA Y CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD;Ciencias médicas;Ciencias clínicas;Geriatría;Enfermedades óseas metabólicas;Osteopenia;Atrofia muscular;Sarcopenia;Geriatrics;Bone diseases, metabolic;Muscular atrophy |
| metadata.dc.date: | 2013 |
| Publisher: | Springer, National Osteoporosis Foundation, USA & International Osteoporosis Foundation |
| Description: | Dear Editor, Regarding the recent report by Patil and colleagues about sarcopenia and osteopenia prevalence [1], we would like to address some methodological issues. It is stated that the prevalence of sarcopenia using the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) is 0.9 %. This is grossly out of other frequencies reported using the same algorithm, which is over 30 %. The first report by Landi and colleagues showed a prevalence of 32.8 % in a group of institutionalized elderly (n = 122), while our group reported 33.6 % in an ambulatory sample of 70 years or older subjects (n = 345) [2, 3]. The first report included all the residents of the nursing home where the study was performed, while our study used a representative sample of Mexico City. However, the sample of Patil et al. was derived from an intervention study, in which neither the whole population (n = 9,370) nor a representative sample was used. Although an excellent sample of a study was aimed to have internal validity, external validity represented by prevalence could be misleading [4]. Nevertheless, other factors could contribute to different frequencies of sarcopenia, like those already pointed by the authors: lack of precise diagnostic criteria and unavailability of standard reference data to the components of the EWGSOP algorithm [1, 5]. |
| URI: | http://repositorio.inger.gob.mx/jspui/handle/20.500.12100/17285 |
| Appears in Collections: | 1. Artículos |
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