| AWGS | Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia |
| AWGS 2019 | Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia 2019 |
| CI | confidence interval |
| EWGSOP | European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People |
| EWGSOP2 | European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People2 |
| FNIH | Foundation for the National Institutes of Health |
| OR | odds ratio |
| NOS | Newcastle–Ottawa Scale |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis |