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Sarcopenic obesity: time to meet the challenge

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Barazzoni, Rocco, Bischoff, Stephan C., Boirie, Yves, Busetto, Luca, Cederholm, Tommy, Dicker, Dror, Toplak, Hermann, Van Gossum, Andre +2 more·2018·Clinical Nutrition

Abstract

The prevalence of overweight and obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide due to increasingly pervasive obesogenic lifestyle changes. Obesity poses unprecedented individual, social and multi-disciplinary medical challenges by increasing the risk for metabolic diseases, chronic organ failures and cancer, as well as complication rates in the presence of acute disease conditions. Whereas reducing excess adiposity remains the fundamental pathogenetic treatment for obese individuals, complex metabolic and lifestyle abnormalities as well as weight-reduction therapies per se may also compromise the ability to preserve muscle function and mass, especially when chronic disease co-exists with obesity. Emerging evidence indicates that low muscle mass and quality have a strong negative prognostic impact in obese individuals and may lead to frailty, disability and increased morbidity and mortality. Awareness of the importance of skeletal muscle maintenance in obesity is however low among clinicians and scientists. The term "sarcopenic obesity" has been proposed to identify obesity with low skeletal muscle function and mass, but its utilization is largely limited to the aging patient population, and consensus on its definition and diagnostic criteria remains insufficient. Knowledge on prevalence of sarcopenic obesity in various clinical conditions and patient subgroups, on its clinical impacts in patient risk stratification and on effective prevention and treatment strategies remain therefore dramatically inadequate. In particular, optimal dietary options and medical nutritional support strategies to preserve muscle mass in obese individuals remain largely undefined. The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) and the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) recognize and indicate obesity with altered body composition due to low skeletal muscle function and mass (sarcopenic obesity) as a scientific and clinical priority for researchers and clinicians. ESPEN and EASO therefore call for coordinated action aimed at reaching consensus on its definition, diagnostic criteria and optimal treatment with particular regard to nutritional therapy. We are convinced that achievement of these goals has strong potential to reduce the burden of morbidity and mortality in the rapidly increasing obese patient population.

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Barazzoni, R., Bischoff, S. C., Boirie, Y., Busetto, L., Cederholm, T., Dicker, D., Toplak, H., Van Gossum, A., Yumuk, V., & Vettor, R.
Affiliations
  • University of Trieste (IT)
  • University of Hohenheim (DE)
  • University of Padua (IT)
  • Uppsala University (SE)
  • Tel Aviv University (IL)
  • Medical University of Graz (AT)
  • Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa (TR)
Corresponding author
Barazzoni, Rocco
Venue
Clinical Nutrition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-12
Volume
37
Issue
6
Pages
1787-1793
ISSN
0261-5614 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2801249437
Cited by
260
References
88
Citations by year
2026: 20 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 57 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
14.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Clinical Nutrition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (submittedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • ArTS Archivio della ricerca di Trieste (University of Trieste https://www.units.it/) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Body Composition Measurement Techniques
Keywords
sarcopenic obesity, obesity, skeletal muscle mass, muscle function, frailty, body composition, diagnostic criteria, nutritional therapy, weight loss treatment, chronic comorbidities
MeSH terms
Frailty, Body Composition, Chronic Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Humans, Life Style, Obesity, Prognosis, Risk Factors, Muscle, Skeletal, Metabolic Syndrome, Nutrition Therapy, Adiposity, Sarcopenia

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