SARCOPENIA: BEYOND WORDS
Abstract:
Modern days focus on life quality and expectancy. Our purpose is to analyze new data
regardin
g sarcopenia from a theoretical as well as practical point of view. This is a narrative review based on
PubMed literature. We only included references between 2013 and 2016 and a selection of 41 articles
was done. Sarcopenia includes an age-dependent damage of muscle function (dynapenia) and/or mass
(myopenia). Frailty is considered a geriatric syndrome involving general weakness, low endurance and
vulnerability but overcoming the classical specific context of general medical and surgical conditions.
Crosstalk between adipose tissue and muscular-skeletal system is a complex, critical issue. Sarcopenia
represents a cutting edge in a multidisciplinary modern field and, despite progresses and modern
scientific interest, controversies are still presented related to underlying mechanisms as well as clear
definition and recommendations for daily practice.
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