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. 2023 Apr 13;14(3):537–546. doi: 10.1007/s41999-023-00780-3

Table 1.

Study characteristic of the BaSAlt cohort with group comparison for sarcopenia quantification, and Spearman correlation coefficients by PhA

Degree of care Md (range) mean ± SD Age (in years) Md (range) mean ± SD Height (in cm)
Md (range) mean ± SD
Weight (in kg) Md (range) mean ± SD BMI (in kg/m2) Md (range) mean ± SD Number of morbidities
Md (range)
mean ± SD
BI (in points) Md (range) mean ± SD MMST (in points) Md (range) mean ± SD MNA-SF® (in points) Md (range) mean ± SD

No sarcopenia

ngroup = 32

nfemale = 25 nmale = 7

3.0 (2–4)

2.94 ± 0.76

86.0 (65–98)

87.28 ± 7.20

162.5 (150.0–175.0)

172,75 ± 7.22

68.6 (41.4–101.0)

68.21 ± 11.22

25.0 (17.5–43.1)

25.81 ± 4.55

3.0 (1–5)

3.13 ± 1.16

80.0 (15–100)

73.28 ± 23.34

23.5 (4–30)

21.32 ± 7.45

12.0 (9–14)

12.10 ± 1,64

Probable sarcopenia

ngroup = 33

nfemale = 21 nmale = 12

3.0 (2–4)

3.00 ± 0.61

87.0 (64–94)

85.67 ± 6.87

165.0 (144.0–187.0)

165.06 ± 9.02

73.1 (53.1–111.0)

75.72 ± 15.86

25.9 (20.9–45.4)

27.82 ± 5.65

3.0 (1–10)

3.53 ± 1.87

65.0 (10–100)

61.82 ± 22.74

19.0 (0–30)

19.26 ± 7.94

12.0 (8–14)

11.85 ± 156

Confirmed/ severe sarcopenia

ngroup = 13

nfemale = 12 | nmale = 1

3.0 (2–4)

3.08 ± 0.64

89.0 (71–97)

89.15 ± 6.40

152.0 (140.0–174.0)

154.62 ± 10.20

57.4 (36.4–70.2)

54.96 ± 9.80

23.6 (15.5–28.9)

22.92 ± 3.42

2.0 (0–6)

2.85 ± 2.04

60.0 (25–75)

54.23 ± 16.69

15.0 (9–27)

17.73 ± 6.57

11.5 (3–13)

10.08 ± 3.15

Kruskal-Wallis-test H = 0.427, p = 0.808 H = 3.400, p = 0.183 H = 10.899, p = 0.004* H = 19.193, p < 0.001* H = 9.681, p = 0.008* H = 1.106, p = 0.575 H = 10.919, p = 0.004* H = 2.400, p = 0.301 H = 4.795, p = 0.091
Dunn–Bonferroni-post-hoc-tests
 No sarcopenia –probable sarcopenia z = − 0.992, p = 0.964 z = − 1.751, p = 0.240 z = − 1.337, p = 0.543 z = 2.337, p = 0.058
 No sarcopenia –confirmed, severe sarcopenia z = 2.529, p = 0.034* z = 3.039, p = 0.007* z = 2.083, p = 0.112 z = 1.296, p = 0.585
 Probable sarcopenia –confirmed, severe sarcopenia z = 3.292, p = 0.003* z = 4.379, p < 0.001* z = 3.105, p = 0.006* z = 3.053, p = 0.007*
 Spearman correlation with PhA r = 0.190, p = 0.095 r = − 0.245, p = 0.031* r = 0.088, p = 0.442 r = − 0.089, p = 0.436 r = − 0.048, p = 0.676 r = − 0.084, p = 0.468 r = − 0.080, p = 0.487 r = − 0.140, p = 0.264 r = − 0.015, p = 0.896

BI Barthel-index, BMI body-mass-index, mini-mental-status-test, MNA-SF® mini-nutrition-assessment-short-form

Essential is the indication of the p-values in italics, which are additionally marked as significant with a *

*Significant result for p ≤ 0.05 (two-sided test)