We read with interest the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS) 2019 consensus
update.
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Akin to the direction adopted by its European counterpart, AWGS 2019 aims to promote
greater integration of sarcopenia in clinical practice by making it easier to conduct
community case finding in an efficient manner.
2
Beyond the 5-item SARC-F questionnaire, AWGS 2019 additionally recommends calf circumference
(CC) as a screening tool for case finding of at-risk populations in community settings
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Published online: May 10, 2020
Footnotes
WSL is a co-author of the AWGS 2019 consensus paper.
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest
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