Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia: 2019 Consensus Update on Sarcopenia Diagnosis and Treatment

• Main Authors: Liang Kung Chen, Jean Woo, Prasert Assantachai, Tung Wai Auyeung, Ming Yueh Chou, Katsuya Iijima, Hak Chul Jang, Lin Kang, Miji Kim, Sunyoung Kim, Taro Kojima, Masafumi Kuzuya, Jenny S.W. Lee, Sang Yoon Lee, Wei Ju Lee, Yunhwan Lee, Chih Kuang Liang, Jae Young Lim, Wee Shiong Lim, Li Ning Peng, Ken Sugimoto, Tomoki Tanaka, Chang Won Won, Minoru Yamada, Teimei Zhang, Masahiro Akishita, Hidenori Arai
• Other Authors: Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
• Format: Article
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Medicine; Nursing
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/53748
• Institution: Mahidol University

© 2019 AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine Clinical and research interest in sarcopenia has burgeoned internationally, Asia included. The Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS) 2014 consensus defined sarcopenia as “age-related loss of muscle mass, plus low muscle strengt...