Table 1.
Prevalence of sarcopenia among Indians.
| Author, year | Measurement of sarcopenia |
Age Cutoff (in years) | Sample Size (N) | Sarcopenia cut off used | Prevalence, % |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mass | Strength | Gait speed | Others | Total | Men | Women | ||||
| Mohanty et al., 2016 [49] | ≥ 60 y | 678 | SMM below -2SD of the reference young adult population | _ | 15.3% | 20.5% | ||||
| Pal et al., 2020 [50] | DXA | Hand Dynamometer | 4 min walk test | _ | ≥ 20 y | 804 | EWGSOP2, 2018 | 5.5 | 7.3% | 4% |
| Sreepriya P.R. et al., 2020 [51] | Lumbar SMI from CT scan | NA | NA | _ | ≥ 18 y | 152 | 53.95% | NA | NA | |
| Tyrovolas et al., 2015 [52] | Predictive equation proposed by Lee et al. | hand dynamometer | 4 min timed walk | _ | ≥ 65 y | 2441 | Country-specific cut-offs for SMI, < 30 kg for men and < 20 kg for women as weak handgrip and specific cut-offs for slow gait speed | 17.5% | NA | NA |
| Rahman R et al., 2021 [53] | DXA | Hand Dynamometer | 6- meter walk gait speed measured during mid 4 m | _ | ≥ 60 y | 227 | EWGSOP 2010 | 39.2% | 46.8% | 23.3% |
| EWGSOP 2018 | 29.5% | 32.5% | 23.3% | |||||||
| ASWG 2014 and 2019 | 27.8 | 32.5% | 17.8% | |||||||
| Zengin et al., 2021 [54] | DXA | Hand Dynamometer | _ | _ | > 45 y | 1755 | FNIH | _ | 42% | 35% |
| EWGSOP2 | _ | 35% | 20% | |||||||
| AWGS | _ | 31% | 20% | |||||||