Table 1.
Sociodemographic, functional, lifestyle, clinical, mental health, and mortality characteristics of study participants for different body mass index (BMI) ranges compared between Thai older adults with and without possible sarcopenia (N = 8,195).
| Total |
BMI
<
18.5 kg/m2 (n = 1,090) |
BMI 18.5–22.9 kg/m2 (n = 3,082) |
BMI
23.0–24.9 kg/m2 (n = 1,439) |
BMI
>
25.0 kg/m2 (n = 2,584) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 8,195) | With possible sarcopenia (n = 668, 61.3%) | Without possible sarcopenia (n = 422, 38.7%) | With possible sarcopenia (n = 1,321, 42.9%) | Without possible sarcopenia (n = 1,761, 57.1%) | With possible sarcopenia (n = 507, 35.2%) | Without possible sarcopenia (n = 932, 64.8%) | With possible sarcopenia (n = 692, 26.8%) | Without possible sarcopenia (n = 1,892, 73.2%) | |
| Age (year), mean (SD) | 69.2 (6.8) | 73.8 (7.2) | 68.5 (6.3) | 72.6 (7.1) | 67.9 (6.2) | 71.9 (7.2) | 67.0 (5.5) | 70.4 (6.8) | 66-5 (5.4) |
| Male, n (%) | 4,048 (49.4) | 387 (57.9) | 215 (51.0) | 798 (60.4) | 931 (52.9) | 263 (51.9) | 476 (51.1) | 277 (40.0) | 701 (37.1) |
| Education (year), mean (SD) | 5.1 (3.1) | 4.1 (1.8) | 4.6 (2.5) | 4.7 (2.6) | 5.3 (3.3) | 4.7 (2.9) | 5.7 (3.6) | 4.9 (2.9) | 5.5 (3.5) |
| Impaired ADL, n (%) | 3,736 (45.6) | 353 (52.8) | 174 (41.2) | 646 (48.9) | 683 (38.8) | 262 (51.7) | 346 (37.1) | 389 (56.2) | 883 (46.7) |
| Urban, n (%) | 4,369 (53.3) | 285 (38.6) | 167 (39.6) | 594 (45.0) | 885 (50.3) | 281 (55.4) | 545 (58.5) | 428 (61.9) | 1,211 (64.0) |
| Smoking, n (%) | 1,583 (19.3) | 228 (34.1) | 140 (33.2) | 327 (24.8) | 424 (24.1) | 59 (11.6) | 147 (15.8) | 72 (10.4) | 186 (9.8) |
| Hypertension, n (%) | 4,098 (50.0) | 224 (33.6) | 120 (28.4) | 625 (47.3) | 721 (41.0) | 292 (57.8) | 485 (52.1) | 458 (66.2) | 1,173 (62.1) |
| Diabetes, n (%) | 1,335 (16.3) | 36 (5.4) | 14 (3.3) | 174 (13.2) | 182 (10.3) | 101 (19.9) | 163 (17.5) | 202 (29.2) | 463 (24.5) |
| Chronic kidney disease, n (%) | 2,368 (28.9) | 184 (27.6) | 82 (19.4) | 459 (34.8) | 403 (22.9) | 184 (36.3) | 255 (27.4) | 239 (34.5) | 562 (29.7) |
| Depression, n (%) | 1,583 (19.3) | 47 (7.0) | 23 (5.5) | 63 (4.8) | 62 (3.5) | 30 (3.9) | 35 (3.8) | 40 (5.8) | 72 (3.8) |
| Cardiovascular disease, n (%) | 347 (4.2) | 21 (3.1) | 10 (2.4) | 56 (4.2) | 43 (2.4) | 25 (4.9) | 25 (2.7) | 37 (3.4) | 57 (3.0) |
| Cerebrovascular disease, n (%) | 251 (3.1) | 31 (4.6) | 6 (1.4) | 39 (3.0) | 31 (1.8) | 29 (5.7) | 33 (3.5) | 54 (7.8) | 101 (5.3) |
| Death per 1,000 person year (95% CI) | 28.2 (27.0–29.4) |
65.7 (58.8–73.4) | 27.9 (22.8–34.1) | 41.2 (37.5–45.4) | 17.8 (15.8–20.1) | 34.4 (29.2–40.7) | 15.5 (13.0–18.5) | 34.1 (29.6–39.3) | 14.4 (12.7–16.4) |