Comparison between clinical significance of height-adjusted and weight-adjusted appendicular skeletal muscle mass.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to compare relationships between height- or weight-adjusted appendicular skeletal muscle mass (ASM/Ht² or ASM/Wt) and risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases or osteoporosis in Japanese men and women.

Methods

Subjects were healthy Japanese men (n = 583) and women (n = 1218). The study population included a young group (310 men and 357 women; age, 18-40 years) and a middle-aged and elderly group (273 men and 861 women; age, ≥41 years). ASM was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. The reference values for class 1 and 2 sarcopenia in each sex were defined as values one and two standard deviations below the sex-specific means of the young group, respectively.

Results

The reference values for class 1 and 2 sarcopenia define

SUBMITTER: Furushima T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5307800 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature