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- Title
Do Different Ascertainment Techniques Identify the Same Individuals as Sarcopenic in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging?
- Authors
Mayhew, Alexandra J.; Phillips, Stuart M.; Sohel, Nazmul; Thabane, Lehana; McNicholas, Paul D.; Souza, Russell J.; Parise, Gianni; Raina, Parminder
- Abstract
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Sarcopenia is associated with poor health outcomes such as disability, institutionalization, and mortality. Efforts to manage sarcopenia clinically have been hindered by challenges in determining how to ascertain sarcopenia status correctly. The objective of this project was to assess the agreement between the different methods of ascertaining sarcopenia recommended by expert groups. DESIGN: Cross‐sectional study of baseline data (2011–2015) from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. SETTING: Population‐based multicenter study of community‐dwelling participants. PARTICIPANTS: Eligible participants (n = 12,646) aged 65 to 85 living within 25 to 50 km of 11 data collection sites in Canada. The analyses included 10,820 participants with the data required to diagnose sarcopenia. MEASUREMENTS: Sarcopenia was operationalized as appendicular lean mass (ALM), ALM and grip strength, ALM and gait speed, and grip strength and gait speed. Within each combination, ALM was adjusted for height squared, weight, body mass index, and the residual of regressing lean mass on height and fat mass. The lowest 20th sex‐specific percentile values were used as the cutoffs for low ALM. Low grip strength cutoffs of 35.5 kg for men and 20 kg for women and a gait speed cutoff of.8 m/s were used. RESULTS: The mean age was 73.0 ± 5.6 years, and 51.9% of the sample was male. The agreement (Cohen's κ) between the different combinations of variables used to ascertain sarcopenia status was below.50. Agreement for the different lean mass adjustment techniques ranged from.04 to.76. CONCLUSION: The combination of variables used to ascertain sarcopenia and many of the ALM adjustment techniques have insufficient agreement to be considered equivalent. This has important clinical implications for the management of sarcopenia because treatments may differ based on how sarcopenia is identified. To improve the clinical utility of sarcopenia, a unified definition of sarcopenia is required.
- Subjects
CANADA; GERIATRIC assessment; GRIP strength; LONGITUDINAL method; MEDICAL cooperation; MEDICAL protocols; RESEARCH; INDEPENDENT living; SARCOPENIA; CROSS-sectional method; LEAN body mass; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; WALKING speed; OLD age
- Publication
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2021, Vol 69, Issue 1, p164
- ISSN
0002-8614
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jgs.16823