Cited by 465Nutrition and Health in AgingFrailty in Older AdultsBody Composition Measurement Techniques

Difficulties with physical function associated with obesity, sarcopenia, and sarcopenic-obesity in community-dwelling elderly women: the EPIDOS (EPIDemiologie de l’OSteoporose) Study

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Rolland, Yves, Lauwers-Cances, Valérie, Cristini, Christelle, van Kan, Gabor Abellan, Janssen, Ian, Morley, John E, Vellas, Bruno·2009·The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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Background In elders, decreased muscle mass (sarcopenia) and increased fat mass (obesity) may contribute to difficulties with physical function.Objective The objective was to examine the association of obesity, sarcopenia, and their combination (sarcopenic-obesity) with self-reported difficulties performing physical function in a cohort of community-dwelling elderly women.Design We assessed muscle and fat mass by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and self-reported difficulties with physical function in 1308 healthy women aged > or =75 y. Sarcopenia was defined as an appendicular skeletal muscle mass < or =2 SD below the mean in a young female reference group. Obesity was defined as a percentage body fat above the 60th percentile. Thirty-six sarcopenic-obese, 90 purely sarcopenic, 435 purely obese, and 747 women with a healthy body composition were studied. Anthropometric measures, health status, lifestyle habits, and self-reported difficulties with 6 different physical functions were obtained.Results Compared with women with a healthy body composition and after adjustment for confounders, purely sarcopenic women had no increased odds of having difficulties for all of the physical functions assessed, purely obese women had a 44-79% higher odds of having difficulties with most of the physical functions assessed (P < 0.05), and sarcopenic-obese women had a 2.60 higher odds of having difficulty climbing stairs and a 2.35 higher odds of having difficulty going down stairs (all P < 0.05).Conclusions Sarcopenia is not associated with physical difficulties in the absence of obesity. However, in the presence of obesity, sarcopenia tends to add difficulty for some physical functions.

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  • Obesity defined by percentage of body fat combined with low muscle mass is associated with higher odds of difficulty ascending and descending stairs (OR 2.60 and 2.35, respectively).

    “a combination of obesity, as defined by percentage of body fat, with low muscle mass represented odds ratios of difficulty ascending and descending stairs that were 2.60 and 2.35 higher, respectively”
  • Sarcopenic obesity results in a 2-3 times higher risk of functional disability than either sarcopenia or obesity alone.

    “This complex disorder results in a 2–3 times higher risk of functional disability than either sarcopenia or obesity alone [14].”
  • Sarcopenic obesity decreases physical functional capacity to a higher degree than sarcopenia or obesity separately.

    “Thus, SO decreases the physical functional capacity to a higher degree than sarcopenia or obesity separately [13, 14].”

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Authors
Rolland, Y., Lauwers-Cances, V., Cristini, C., van Kan, G. A., Janssen, I., Morley, J. E., & Vellas, B.
Affiliations
Inserm (FR)
Corresponding author
Rolland, Yves
Venue
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-06
Volume
89
Issue
6
Pages
1895-1900
ISSN
0002-9165 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2161889485
Cited by
465
References
28
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FWCI
18.11
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Frailty in Older Adults
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Body Composition Measurement Techniques
Keywords
sarcopenia, obesity, sarcopenic obesity, physical function, community-dwelling elderly women, body composition, appendicular skeletal muscle mass, stair climbing, functional limitations
MeSH terms
Activities of Daily Living, Adipose Tissue, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Humans, Muscular Atrophy, Obesity, Physical Fitness, Odds Ratio, Muscle, Skeletal, Mobility Limitation, Muscle Strength

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