{"id":2120,"date":"2019-09-09T14:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T14:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2026-01-29T20:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:11:26","slug":"sarcopenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/sarcopenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic Criteria for Sarcopenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sarcopenia is a progressive and generalized skeletal muscle disorder that is associated with increased likelihood of adverse outcomes including falls, fractures, physical disability and mortality.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Operational Definition of Sarcopenia<\/strong><br \/>\nProbable sarcopenia is identified by Criterion 1.<br \/>\nDiagnosis is confirmed by additional documentation of Criterion 2.<br \/>\nIf Criteria 1, 2 and 3 are all met, sarcopenia is considered severe.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Low muscle strength<\/li>\n<li>Low muscle quantity or quality<\/li>\n<li>Low physical performance<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>EWGSOP2 sarcopenia cut-off points<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 137px;\"><strong>Test<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 195px;\"><strong>Cut-off points for men<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 222px;\"><strong>Cut-off points for women<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 574px;\" colspan=\"3\">EWGSOP2 sarcopenia cut-off points for low strength by chair stand and grip strength<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 137px;\">Grip strength<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 195px;\"><strong>&lt;27 kg<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 222px;\"><strong>&lt;16 kg<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 137px;\">Chair stand<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 195px;\"><strong>&gt;15 s for five rises<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 222px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 574px;\" colspan=\"3\">EWGSOP2 sarcopenia cut-off points for low muscle quantity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 137px;\">ASM<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 195px;\"><strong>&lt;20 kg<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 222px;\"><strong>&lt;15 kg<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 137px;\">ASM\/height2<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 195px;\"><strong>&lt;7.0 kg\/m2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 222px;\"><strong>&lt;5.5 kg\/m2<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 574px;\" colspan=\"3\">EWGSOP2 sarcopenia cut-off points for low performance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 137px;\">Gait speed<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 195px;\"><strong>\u22640.8 m\/s<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 222px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 137px;\">SPPB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 427px;\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>\u22648 point score<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 137px;\">TUG<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 427px;\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>\u226520 s\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 137px;\">400 m walk test<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 427px; text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Non-completion or \u22656 min for completion<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Abbreviations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EWGSOP2: European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People 2<\/li>\n<li>ASM: Appendicular Skeletal Muscle Mass (the skeletal muscle mass measured using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry),<\/li>\n<li>SPPB: Short Physical Performance Battery (standing balance, walking speed, and chair stand tests)<\/li>\n<li>TUG: Timed-Up and Go test (the time that a person takes to rise from a chair, walk three meters, turn around, walk back to the chair, and sit down)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Han A, Bokshan SL, Marcaccio SE, DePasse JM, Daniels AH. Diagnostic Criteria and Clinical Outcomes in Sarcopenia Research: A Literature Review.\u00a0J Clin Med. 2018 Apr 8;7(4). pii: E70. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29642478\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cruz-Jentoft AJ, Bahat G, Bauer J, Boirie Y, Bruy\u00e8re O, Cederholm T, Cooper C, Landi F, Rolland Y, Sayer AA, Schneider SM, Sieber CC, Topinkova E, Vandewoude M, Visser M, Zamboni M; Writing Group for the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People 2 (EWGSOP2), and the Extended Group for EWGSOP2. Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis. Age Ageing. 2019 Jan 1;48(1):16-31. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/30312372\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wang L, Lu S, Feng J, Ma K, Duan F, Wang R, Cheng X, Liu Y, Imai Y, Chen H, Gl\u00fcer CC, Guglielmi G, Vlug AG, Liu J, Engelke K, Li M, Sim M, Minisola S, Jiang X. Muscle Imaging Assessments in Sarcopenia: A Statement from China National Center for Orthopedics (NCO) and the East Meets West Action Group of the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS). Calcif Tissue Int. 2025 Dec 1;116(1):144. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/41326843\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created Sep 9, 2019.<br \/>\nUp-date Jan 29, 2026.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[16,15,14,13,100,99],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-diagnostic","tag-diagnostico","tag-ewgsop","tag-sarcopenia"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10606,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/10606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}