Transition between 2019 and 2025 sarcopenia definitions by the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia in community-dwelling older adults
Nath Adulkasem, Ekasame Vanitcharoenkul, Aasis Unnanuntana, Pojchong Chotiyarnwong · 2026
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Nath Adulkasem and three colleagues checked in 2026 what happens when a revised Asian definition of sarcopenia replaces the older one. Sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle and strength, gained updated criteria from the Asian Working Group in 2025. The team reanalysed a nationwide Thai study of 2,456 community-dwelling adults aged 60 and over, reclassifying everyone under both rule sets.
Prevalence rose from about eighteen percent under the old rules to about twenty-eight percent under the new ones. The wider net caught more people with higher body mass and more people under 65, while their measured function looked much like that of people caught by the old rules. Possible sarcopenia, by contrast, became far less common. Clinicians and researchers comparing studies across the changeover need to know that the yardstick itself moved.
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| CREATOR | Nath Adulkasem, Ekasame Vanitcharoenkul, Aasis Unnanuntana, Pojchong Chotiyarnwong |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40462 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |