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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 2018 Jun 12;44(3):393–404. doi: 10.1016/j.rdc.2018.03.001

Table 2.

Sarcopenia Staging

Stage Muscle Mass Muscle Strength Performance

Presarcopenia Low Normal Normal
Sarcopenia Low Low Normal or low
Severe sarcopenia Low Low Low

From Cruz-Jentoft AJ, Baeyens JP, Bauer JM, et al. Sarcopenia: European consensus on definition and diagnosis: report of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People. Age Aging 2010;39(4):414; Reproduced with permission