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Published in final edited form as: Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2019 Jan 29;82:100–105. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2019.01.008

Table 3.

Clinical characteristics of patients participating in the study, Centro Medico Naval Cirujano Mayor Santiago Tavara, 2010–2015 (N = 1598).

		With Sarcopenia		Without Sarcopenia

Characteristics		n	%	n	%

Diabetes^a
	Yes	44	18.3	225	16.8
	No	197	81.7	1114	83.2
High blood pressure^a
	Yes	143	59.3	853	63.2
	No	98	40.7	497	36.8
Chronic kidney disease
	Yes	57	23.6	243	18.1
	No	184	76.4	1096	81.9
Heart failure
	Yes	8	3.3	83	6.1
	No	233	96.7	1274	93.9
History of depression
	Yes	44	18.5	297	22.2
	No	194	81.5	1041	77.8
Body mass index (Mean, SD)		26.2	5.9	25.8	5.4
Lawton-Brody index (Mean, SD)^a		3.4	2.2	4.9	1.9
Barthel index*
	Total dependent	5	2.1	21.0	1.6
	Severe dependent	14	5.8	39.0	2.9
	Moderate dependent	83	34.4	616.0	45.6
	Mild dependent	30	12.5	199.0	14.7
	Independent	109	45.2	476.0	35.2
Yesavage questionnaire (5-items)
	With depression	145	60.2	262	19.3
	Without depression	96	39.8	1095	80.7
Mini-Mental state examination (Mean, SD)		23.0	5.1	25.8	3.7
Hospitalizations in the last year^a
	Never	99	41.1	670	49.8
	1	119	49.4	554	41.2
	2	23	9.5	121	9.0

Incomplete data.