| Title |
Association of body composition with sarcopenic obesity in elderly women
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|---|---|
| Published in |
International Journal of General Medicine, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.2147/ijgm.s36279 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Alessandro Oliveira Silva, Margô Gomes Oliveira Karnikowski, Silvana Schwerz Funghetto, Marina Morato Stival, Ricardo Moreno Lima, Jéssica Cardoso de Souza, James Wilfred Navalta, Jonato Prestes |
| Abstract |
The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of sarcopenic obesity and its association with obesity and sarcopenia in elderly Brazilian women. Two hundred and seventy-two sedentary women with a mean age of 66.75 ± 5.38 years were recruited for participation in this study. Obesity was determined by both body mass index and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) evaluations. Sarcopenic obesity diagnosis was established from the ratio between fat-free mass and body surface area as obtained by DXA. There was no association of obesity with sarcopenic obesity (P = 0.424). In contrast, sarcopenia was significantly related to sarcopenic obesity (P < 0.001), although most of the elderly women with sarcopenia (n = 171) did not exhibit sarcopenic obesity. These results highlight the importance of diagnosing sarcopenic obesity as elderly women exhibiting sarcopenia could be either eutrophic or obese. |
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