| |
Normal
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Pre-sarcopenia
|
Sarcopenia
|
|---|
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(n = 166)
|
(n = 38)
|
(n = 12)
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|---|
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Age (years)
|
73.0 ± 7.8
|
72.2 ± 8.5
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84.9 ± 5.0 **
|
|
Gender (M:F)
|
63:103
|
11:27
|
5:7
|
|
%YAM (%)
|
78.9 ± 13.7
|
78.3 ± 15.9
|
63.8 ± 8.7 **
|
|
BMI (Kg/m2)
|
22.8 ± 2.3
|
18.9 ± 2.0**
|
20.6 ± 2.4*
|
|
Smoking habit (%)
|
25.6
|
26.3
|
8.3
|
|
Alcohol habit (%)
|
30.1
|
42.1
|
25.0
|
- (Mean ± SD)
- Steel-Dwass *P < 0.05,**P < 0.01
- %YAM: the percentage of young adult mean
- BMI: Body mass index
- M:male
- F: female
- Sarcopenia was noted in 12 of 216 subjects (5.5%). %YAM and BMI were significantly lower in the sarcopenia group than in the Normal groups. BMI in the Pre-sarcopenia group were significantly lower in the other groups. %YAM and BMI were significantly lower in the sarcopenia group than in the other groups (Steel-Dwass test, *: P < 0.05, **:P < 0.01). There were no significant differences among the three groups about smoking habit and alcohol habit (Chi-square for independence test, m × n contingency table)
