Functional Measures of Sarcopenia: Prevalence, and Associations with Functional Disability in 10,892 Adults Aged 65 Years and Over from Six Lower- and Middle-Income Countries

• Main Authors: Sharon L. Brennan-Olsen, Steven J. Bowe, Paul Kowal, Nirmala Naidoo, Nekehia T. Quashie, Geeta Eick, Sutapa Agrawal, Catherine D’Este
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85073987456&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/67599
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Identification of sarcopenia in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is limited by access to technologies that assess muscle mass. We investigated associations between two functional measures of sarcopenia, grip strength an...