We thank you for the opportunity to respond to the issues raised in the letter by
Kara et al and thank them for their valuable comments on the Asian Working Group for
Sarcopenia (AWGS) consensus for sarcopenia diagnosis. Before responding to the comments,
we want to address some consensus of AWGS: (1) AWGS wants to make evidence-based recommendations,
so only published studies in Asian countries were included; (2) AWGS defined sarcopenia
as an age-related condition, so recommendations were limited to people older than
60 or 65 years old; and (3) younger people with sarcopenia were recommended to search
for potential underlying pathoetiology instead of only sarcopenia.
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- Comment on Asian Working Group on Sarcopenia's Updated Consensus Recommendations: Emphasis on Anterior Thigh Muscle MassJournal of the American Medical Directors AssociationVol. 21Issue 8
- PreviewWe have read with great interest the recently published consensus update of Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia about the diagnosis and treatment of sarcopenia.1 We congratulate them for defining their diagnostic algorithm. Although we agree on selecting less stringent cut-off values for physical performance tests [ie, ≥12 seconds for chair stand test (CST) and <1.0 m/s for usual gait speed] compared with those of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People,2 we have a few suggestions on the following issues.
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