Frequency of sarcopenia and associated factors among hospitalized elderly patients

Sarcopenia is an important public health problem that affects mainly elders, and has negative consequences, such as disability and even death. Due to the lack of studies evaluating sarcopenia in elderly persons hospitalized in Brazil, the aim of the present study was to describe the frequency of sar...

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Published in:BMC musculoskeletal disorders 2015-05, Vol.16 (1), p.108-108, Article 108
Main Authors: Martinez, Bruno Prata, Batista, Anne Karine Menezes Santos, Gomes, Isabela Barboza, Olivieri, Flávia Milholo, Camelier, Fernanda Warken Rosa, Camelier, Aquiles Assunção
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Aged patients
Aged, 80 and over
Analysis
Brazil
Care and treatment
Cross-Sectional Studies
Diagnosis
Female
Hand Strength
Health aspects
Heart diseases
Hospital patients
Hospitalization
Humans
Male
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Middle Aged
Muscle Weakness - etiology
Muscle, Skeletal - pathology
Muscles
Sarcopenia
Sarcopenia - complications
Sarcopenia - diagnosis
Sarcopenia - pathology
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Summary:Sarcopenia is an important public health problem that affects mainly elders, and has negative consequences, such as disability and even death. Due to the lack of studies evaluating sarcopenia in elderly persons hospitalized in Brazil, the aim of the present study was to describe the frequency of sarcopenia and associated factors among elders in a hospital in the city of Salvador-Brazil. This cross-sectional study included 110 hospitalized elderly patients in a multi-specialty hospital in Salvador-BA, Brazil. Inclusion criteria: were elders aged ≥60 years between the first and fifth day of hospitalization; who were able to walk without external assistance; with medical permission to walk, and who did not take vasoactive and inotropic drugs. The diagnosis of sarcopenia was determined by combining the reduction in skeletal muscle mass with muscle weakness (women,
ISSN:1471-2474
1471-2474
DOI:10.1186/s12891-015-0570-x