Table 1.
Prevalence of sarcopenia according to the consensus definition stratified by CKD stages and KRT.
| Meta‐analysis | Heterogeneity | Inter‐group comparisons | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of studies | No. of patients | Prevalence (95% CI) | I 2 | P value | |
| EWGSOP | 0.607 | ||||
| Non‐dialysis | 2 | 153 | 39.2 (31.5–47.1) | ‐ | |
| Haemodialysis | 15 | 2919 | 28.8 (21.9–36.1) | 94.2% | |
| Peritoneal dialysis | 2 | 129 | 10.8 (5.9–16.9) | ‐ | |
| Dialysis (HD + PD) | 3 | 211 | 41.4 (21.4–62.9) | ‐ | |
| Kidney transplant | 5 | 689 | 26.6 (16.1–38.7) | 91.3% | |
| CKD‐grouped | 2 | 285 | 39.2 (33.6–45.0) | ‐ | |
| Overall | 29 | 4386 | 29.7 (24.3–35.4) | 93.7% | |
| EWGSOP2 | 0.238 | ||||
| Non‐dialysis | 4 | 975 | 8.4 (1.7–19.1) | 95.3% | |
| Haemodialysis | 12 | 1144 | 30.6 (22.3–39.5) | 89.3% | |
| Peritoneal dialysis | 1 | 368 | 11.1 (4.1–27.9) | ‐ | |
| Dialysis (HD + PD) | 1 | 451 | 22.2 (18.6–26.2) | ‐ | |
| Kidney transplant | 2 | 295 | 10.9 (7.5–14.7) | ‐ | |
| CKD‐grouped | 3 | 534 | 13.8 (4.1–27.9) | ‐ | |
| Overall | 23 | 3767 | 20.4 (14.9–26.5) | 94.6% | |
| FNIH | 0.213 | ||||
| Non‐dialysis | 2 | 8840 | 0.6 (0.5–0.8) | ‐ | |
| Haemodialysis | 1 | 440 | 17.0 (13.8–20.8) | ‐ | |
| Peritoneal dialysis | 1 | 155 | 15.5 (10.6–22.0) | ‐ | |
| Kidney transplant | 1 | 120 | 3.3 (1.3–8.3) | ‐ | |
| Overall | 5 | 9555 | 10.6 (1.4–26.5) | 98.8% | |
| AWGS | 0.276 | ||||
| Non‐dialysis | 1 | 260 | 25.0 (20.1–30.6) | ‐ | |
| Haemodialysis | 9 | 7331 | 21.4 (13.7–30.2) | 98.1% | |
| Peritoneal dialysis | 3 | 445 | 15.9 (4.0–33.4) | ‐ | |
| Kidney transplant | 2 | 268 | 13.1 (9.2–17.5) | ‐ | |
| Overall | 15 | 8304 | 19.7 (14.1–26.1) | 97.2% | |
| AWGS2 | 0.486 | ||||
| Non‐dialysis | 10 | 2680 | 17.7 (11.6–24.9) | 94.8% | |
| Haemodialysis | 26 | 6356 | 31.6 (25.6–38.0) | 96.3% | |
| Peritoneal dialysis | 1 | 186 | 38.2 (31.5–45.3) | ‐ | |
| Kidney transplant | 3 | 300 | 19.1 (9.0–31.7) | ‐ | |
| CKD‐grouped | 2 | 656 | 28.8 (25.3–32.3) | ‐ | |
| Overall | 42 | 10 178 | 26.9 (22.7–31.2) | 95.6% | |
CKD, chronic kidney disease; HD, haemodialysis; KRT, kidney replacement therapies; PD, peritoneal dialysis; EWGSOP, European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People; AWGS, Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia; FNIH, The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Biomarkers Consortium Sarcopenia Project.