Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the study population (weighted)
| Normal nutrition without sarcopenia (n = 9312) | Sarcopenia with normal nutrition (n = 1446) |
Malnutrition without sarcopenia (n = 1472) |
Malnutrition-sarcopenia syndrome (n = 239) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 44.1 ± 0.2 | 56.5 ± 0.5 | 42.3 ± 0.5 | 62.0 ± 1.2 | < 0.001 |
| Female | 4694 (51.4) | 681 (48.3) | 621 (47.3) | 88 (34.9) | < 0.001 |
| Race | |||||
| Mexican American | 1902 (7.1) | 664 (16.6) | 250 (6.4) | 89 (12.1) | < 0.001 |
| Other Hispanic | 421 (5.3) | 89 (9.7) | 43 (3.5) | 8 (4.1) | |
| Non-Hispanic White | 4801 (73.6) | 603 (65.7) | 771 (73.4) | 124 (75.4) | |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 1858 (9.8) | 45 (1.8) | 349 (11.9) | 8 (2.2) | |
| Other Race | 330 (4.5) | 45 (6.3) | 59 (4.9) | 10 (6.3) | |
| Education levels | |||||
| < 12 | 4780 (42.9) | 1057 (62.7) | 741 (41.0) | 157 (55.7) | < 0.001 |
| 12 | 2607 (30.9) | 253 (24.4) | 410 (31.0) | 51 (30.3) | |
| > 12 | 1915 (26.1) | 132 (12.9) | 319 (28.0) | 31 (14.0) | |
| Smoking status | 4642 (51.1) | 717 (50.1) | 664 (42.9) | 134 (55.8) | < 0.001 |
| Alcohol use | 4593 (32.5) | 697 (40.0) | 738 (33.8) | 160 (50.6) | 0.003 |
| BMI | 27.3 ± 0.1 | 31.5 ± 0.2 | 25.4 ± 0.2 | 31.3 ± 0.4 | < 0.001 |
| Hypertension | 2500 (23.4) | 603 (42.6) | 406 (21.1) | 126 (54.9) | < 0.001 |
| DM | 674 (4.9) | 254 (15.8) | 137 (5.6) | 55 (22.7) | < 0.001 |
| CHD | 253 (1.9) | 108 (8.2) | 92 (4.7) | 30 (16.8) | < 0.001 |
| CHF | 155 (1.1) | 78 (5.3) | 54 (2.4) | 28 (12.3) | < 0.001 |
| Cancer | 589 (6.2) | 126 (8.9) | 162 (8.8) | 41 (17.8) | < 0.001 |
Abbreviations: BMI Body mass index, DM Diabetes mellitus, CHD Coronary heart disease, CHF Congestive heart failure