Sarc-Global: a new sarcopenia screening tool in older adults

IF 3.2 3区医学 Q2 NUTRITION & DIETETICS

Nutrition Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI:10.1016/j.nut.2024.112654

Natalia Correia Lopes MS , Ana Carolina Costa Vicedomini MS , Natália Vieira Magalhães MS , Dan Linetzky Waitzberg MD, PhD , Wilson Jacob MD , Alexandre Busse MD , Douglas Ferdinando MS , Rosa Maria Rodrigues Pereira MD , Raquel Torrinhas MD , Giliane Belarmino MD

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Abstract

Background

Sarcopenia is associated with clinical complications that increase mortality in older adults. Current screening tools, such as Sarc-F and Sarc-CalF, focus primarily on muscular performance but have limited sensitivity in identifying elderly individuals at risk of sarcopenia. The present study aims to develop a more comprehensive sarcopenia risk screening tool, Sarc-Global, which integrates additional anthropometric and clinical variables to enhance the sensitivity and accuracy of sarcopenia risk assessment in older adults.

Methods

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to develop a sarcopenia risk screening tool, named Sarc-Global, with enhanced sensitivity, incorporating factors pertinent to the overall health of elderly individuals. Utilizing the criteria established by EWGSOP2 for diagnosing sarcopenia, we evaluated 395 community-dwelling elderly individuals. This evaluation served as a reference for assessing the efficacy of two validated questionnaires, Sarc-F and Sarc-CalF, and our newly developed Sarc-Global.

Results

Multiple logistic regression revealed that Sarc-Global integrates variables such as sex, age, medication use, body mass index, arm circumference, and handgrip strength, which are significantly associated with sarcopenia (p<0.001). When combined with Sarc-CalF, these variables form the basis of the Sarc-Global model. In screening for sarcopenia risk, Sarc-Global demonstrated superior accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity (74%), outperforming Sarc-F (21%) and Sarc-CalF (34%).

Conclusion

Sarc-Global proves to be an effective tool for identifying elderly individuals at risk of sarcopenia.

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Nutrition 医学-营养学

CiteScore

7.80

自引率

2.30%

发文量

300

审稿时长

60 days

期刊介绍： Nutrition has an open access mirror journal Nutrition: X, sharing the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review. Founded by Michael M. Meguid in the early 1980''s, Nutrition presents advances in nutrition research and science, informs its readers on new and advancing technologies and data in clinical nutrition practice, encourages the application of outcomes research and meta-analyses to problems in patient-related nutrition; and seeks to help clarify and set the research, policy and practice agenda for nutrition science to enhance human well-being in the years ahead.