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A diagnostic proposal for sarcopenic obesity in adults based on body composition phenotypes.
Clinical nutrition ESPEN - 1 Dec 2022
Zambon Azevedo Vittoria, Ponnaiah Maharajah, Bel Lassen Pierre, Ratziu Vlad, Oppert Jean-Michel
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Sarcopenic obesity (SO) associates a decrease in lean body mass (LBM) with an excessive increase in fat mass (FM). A number of diagnostic methods, definitions criteria, and thresholds have been proposed for SO resulting in markedly discordant prevalence estimates in populations with obesity. In this study, we first assessed several previously described SO diagnostic criteria and their...
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